Biodiversity and COVID-19: A report and a long road ahead to avoid another pandemic [0.03%]
生物多样性和新冠肺炎疫情：一份报告与避免下一次大流行病的漫漫长路
Serge Morand,Claire Lajaunie
Serge Morand
A report from a workshop organized by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on biodiversity and pandemics examined the scientific evidence on the origin of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and other emergi...
Ensuring a Post-COVID Economic Agenda Tackles Global Biodiversity Loss [0.03%]
确保后疫情时代的经济议程应对全球生物多样性丧失问题
Pamela McElwee,Esther Turnout,Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline et al.
Pamela McElwee et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic and unprecedented impacts on both global health and economies. Many governments are now proposing recovery packages to get back to normal, but the 2019 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for ...
Christian Stoll,Michael Arthur Mehling
Christian Stoll
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered the largest drop in greenhouse gas emissions since World War II. Evolving mobility patterns, in particular, have shown the short-term mitigation potential of behavioral change. ...
Proposed Legislation to Mine Brazil's Indigenous Lands Will Threaten Amazon Forests and Their Valuable Ecosystem Services [0.03%]
在巴西原住民土地上采矿的立法提案将威胁亚马逊森林及其宝贵的生态系统服务
Juliana Siqueira-Gay,Britaldo Soares-Filho,Luis E Sanchez et al.
Juliana Siqueira-Gay et al.
A recent proposal to regulate mining within Indigenous Lands (ILs) threatens people and the unique ecosystems of Brazil's Legal Amazon. Here, we show that this new policy could eventually affect more than 863,000 km2 of tropical forests-20%...
Informal Work and Sustainable Cities: From Formalization to Reparation [0.03%]
非正规就业与可持续城市发展：从就业形式化到问题修补制度改革
Jennifer L Tucker,Manisha Anantharaman
Jennifer L Tucker
Informal workers produce economic, social, and environmental value for cities. Too often, policy elites, including those promoting sustainable cities, overlook this value, proposing formalization and relying on deficit-based framings of inf...
Ademola Braimoh
Ademola Braimoh
Climate change constitutes a significant threat to food security and poverty reduction in Africa, and the food system is severely off target in meeting development goals. Policy response should focus on investing in agricultural public good...
Marcello Estevão
Marcello Estevão
The recession and debt distress accompanying coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pose serious threats to governments' ability to invest in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, raising the specter of another lost decade for climate a...
Wei Liu,Alice C Hughes,Gulshan Sachdeva et al.
Wei Liu et al.
The Belt and Road Initiative is perhaps the largest infrastructure development project in history and has aspirations to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. In this Voices, we ask experts from various disciplinary backgrounds f...
Billions in Misspent EU Agricultural Subsidies Could Support the Sustainable Development Goals [0.03%]
数十亿浪费的欧盟农业补贴可用于支持可持续发展目标
Murray W Scown,Mark V Brady,Kimberly A Nicholas
Murray W Scown
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the guiding policy for agriculture and the largest single budget item in the European Union (EU). Agriculture is essential to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but the CAP's contribution ...
Gang He,Jiang Lin,Ying Zhang et al.
Gang He et al.
As the world's largest coal producer and consumer, China's transition from coal to cleaner energy sources is critical for achieving global decarbonization. Increasing regulations on air pollution and carbon emissions and decreasing costs of...