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The report identifies peatland protection as an 'emergency brake' climate solution due to the high carbon density of these ecosystems, which store approximately 600 Gt of carbon. It estimates that protecting one hectare of peatland avoids between 0.92 and 13.47 t CO‚-eq/ha/yr, with the highest impact in tropical and subtropical regions. The net cost is estimated at US$1.5/ha/yr, or $0.25/t CO‚-eq avoided. While approximately 22% of global peatlands are in protected areas (PAs), the report suggests an achievable protection range of 70–90% of remaining undrained peatlands, which could reduce emissions by 1.3–1.7 Gt CO‚-eq/yr. The analysis emphasizes the critical role of Indigenous peoples' lands, which contain an additional 186 Mha of peatlands, and advocates for secure land tenure and community-led governance to ensure permanence and avoid leakage.

The Global Resilience Partnership expresses gratitude for the Earth's natural resources and pledges to protect forests, seas, and lands to ensure environmental preservation for future generations.

Natural Justice critiques proposed amendments to South Africa's EIA Regulations, warning that reducing 'red tape' for seismic surveys, mining expansions, and fracturing could lead to long-term ecological and social harm. The organization advocates for maintaining full EIAs for high-impact activities and strengthening public participation to ensure a just energy transition.

Natural Justice argues that South Africa's proposed 2024 EIA regulation amendments must ensure full environmental impact assessments for high-impact activities, including hydraulic fracturing, seismic surveys, and coastal industrial construction, to protect ecological integrity and community livelihoods.

The H2Global mechanism lacks minimum sustainability standards, leaving the ambition of future tenders to individual funders. While the BMWK pilot tender aligns with EU regulations on renewable electricity additionality and correlation, it fails to incentivise surplus electricity sharing for local energy access. Water and land use safeguards are insufficient, as they overlook competing local demands for resources and may miss locally significant sites. Additionally, local value creation measures are limited by an export-focused design and unclear guidelines, reducing the potential for sustainable economic impact in producing countries.

The document outlines a framework for EU Member States to accelerate renewable energy deployment through Renewables Acceleration Areas (RAAs) without compromising biodiversity or public participation. It emphasizes that RAAs must be designated in areas with no expected significant environmental impact, requiring robust Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) and Appropriate Assessments (AAs). The guide argues that the presumption of 'overriding public interest' for renewable projects is rebuttable and must not bypass strict environmental safeguards. It further details the necessity of meaningful public consultation and effective access to justice at both the planning and permitting stages to ensure legal certainty and environmental protection.

The document outlines key decisions from COP16 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CDB), focusing on the integration of biodiversity with climate action, public health, and marine protection. It highlights the adoption of the Global Action Plan on Biodiversity and Health, the establishment of the Cali Fund for genetic resource benefit-sharing, and new governance structures for indigenous peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendants. The brief also emphasizes the need for continued technical and scientific support to implement these decisions within national biodiversity strategies.

The report presents two case studies—one from Zanzibar and one from Canada—to illustrate the practical application of gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in nature-based solutions (NbS) for climate adaptation. In Zanzibar, the 'Pamoja Voices' toolkit helped cooperatives identify gender-specific climate risks and restructure governance to include women and youth. In Canada, the Dane Nan Yḗ Dāh network demonstrates an Indigenous-led approach to land and wildlife monitoring that integrates traditional knowledge and intergenerational collaboration. Both cases emphasize the necessity of community-led processes, the use of disaggregated data, and the establishment of trust-based local partnerships to ensure that adaptation benefits are equitably distributed.

The report presents two case studies on integrating gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) into nature-based solutions (NbS) for adaptation. The first case study focuses on the Pamoja Voices toolkit used by cooperatives in Zanzibar to ensure women and youth are included in climate-resilience planning. The second case study examines the Dane Nan Yḗ Dāh Network in Canada, where Kaska Dena Land Guardians combine Traditional Knowledge with Western science for land and wildlife monitoring. Both cases emphasize the necessity of community-led approaches, intergenerational knowledge sharing, and the use of disaggregated data in monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) to avoid maladaptation and ensure equitable benefit sharing.

The document contains technical appendices for a report on reforming environmentally harmful subsidies (EHS). It introduces a 'Fiscal Pressure' indicator to identify countries where high debt and deficits create strong incentives for subsidy reform, and provides a stakeholder analysis mapping the influence and attitudes of businesses, governments, consumers, and civil society toward EHS reform.

The document outlines a proposal for a national Traditional Knowledge Database in Mozambique to prevent the loss and misappropriation of biodiversity-related knowledge. It details a multi-tiered access system—ranging from community representatives to the general public—and an interoperability framework designed to link with scientific repositories like BioNoMo and RECIMO. The proposal emphasizes community-centric governance, including Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and traditional dispute resolution, to ensure that knowledge holders maintain control over their cultural heritage and benefit from its use.

The document outlines a proposal for a community-centered national database to safeguard Mozambique's traditional knowledge on biodiversity. It identifies critical regulatory gaps in digital documentation and proposes a multi-tiered access system to prevent misappropriation. The framework emphasizes interoperability with existing scientific repositories like BioNoMo and RECIMO, and integrates a robust community-led governance model for consent and dispute resolution.

The document outlines the importance of protecting traditional knowledge in Mozambique, highlighting risks such as biopiracy and commercial exploitation. It defines the role of academia in ensuring ethical research through informed consent and benefit-sharing, and recommends three key frameworks: the SADC Research Ethics Guidelines, the International Society of Ethnobiology (ISE) Code of Ethics, and the research ethics regulations of Eduardo Mondlane University.

The document examines the 'catnip project', which successfully developed an environmentally friendly mosquito repellent using local bioresources in eastern Africa. While the project demonstrated strong entrepreneurial activity and legitimacy through community involvement, it faced significant barriers in financial mobilization, policy guidance, and market creation. The analysis highlights the critical role of bio-innovation platforms like BioInnovate Africa in linking research to market, while noting that short funding cycles from aid agencies often conflict with the longer timelines required for successful innovation and commercialization.

The briefing warns that the Trump administration is attempting to weaken the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by empowering a presidential committee, referred to as the 'God Squad,' to prioritize development and special interests over the survival of endangered species. Earthjustice asserts that the ESA is a critical tool for combating the biodiversity crisis, noting that over one-third of U.S. flora and fauna are at risk. The organization highlights its history of successfully challenging Trump-era rollbacks in court and maintains that legal, scientific, and economic findings must precede any committee decision to remove species protections.

The document highlights the 2025 International Year of Glaciers' Preservation, detailing how human-caused climate change is accelerating glacial melt. It emphasizes the role of glaciers as 'water towers' providing freshwater for billions and warns of increasing risks from glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), particularly in Asia and the Americas. The text notes that glaciers in 50 UNESCO World Heritage sites are losing an average of 58 billion tonnes of ice annually, with a third projected to vanish within 25 years.

The study analyzed macrobenthic communities in five Uruguayan coastal lagoons across three spatial scales and four months in 2005. It found that community structure is primarily driven by spatial variation rather than short-term temporal changes, with the most significant differences occurring between the closed, eutrophic Diario lagoon and those intermittently connected to the ocean. Key environmental drivers include total suspended solids, conductivity, sediment organic matter, phytobenthic chlorophyll a, and macrophyte total biomass.

The document examines how land-use changes, specifically deforestation in the Gran Chaco region, correlate with increased rural land conflicts in Santiago del Estero, Argentina.

The Espinhaço Mountains have a long history of extractive economic cycles, from 18th-century gold mining to modern iron ore and gemstone extraction, which generated wealth at a high environmental cost. The region's rupestrian grasslands host unique biodiversity that supports three major Brazilian river basins and provides essential medicines, raw materials, and water. The authors advocate for the use of wealth generated by mining to fund sustainable land use management and biodiversity conservation.

The document reports that ecological restoration significantly increases biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) compared to degraded states, although they often remain below reference levels. While agroecosystems and certain forest services show high recovery, wetlands and forest biodiversity lag behind reference benchmarks. A positive correlation exists between biodiversity and ES recovery, but quantitative data on cultural ES is lacking.