Science and Reports

The publication provides the criteria and guidelines developed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), National Biodiversity Authority of India (NBA) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to identify OECMs in India.

This report provides a methodology to evaluate where safeguarding natural capital could have the biggest impact on climate, economies and health. This report seeks to contribute to efforts to deliver 30x30, providing a fact base and methodology.

This report, which focuses on the direct economic benefits of protected areas, is part of a programme, starting in 2003, on wider benefits of area-based conservation to human society, including contributions to food security and disaster risk reduction.

This edition of the Living Planet Report confirms the planet is in the midst of a biodiversity and climate crisis, and that we have a last chance to act. This goes beyond conservation. A nature-positive future needs transformative shifts in how we live.

Draft summary for policymakers of the fifth edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook underscores the urgent need to address declining biodiversity and its impacts on sustainability goals. It outlines progress, challenges, and pathways to achieve change.

The overall scope of the assessment is to assess the status and trends with regard to biodiversity and ecosystem services, the impact of biodiversity and ecosystem services on human well-being and the effectiveness of responses, including the Strategic Plan.

The map visualizes a global assessment of biodiversity richness and rarity at a 1–50 km scale for all terrestrial and marine vertebrates and at 1km to country scale for hundreds of thousands of invertebrate and plant species. The quality of the data is unique.