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Challenges and opportunities when assessing exposure of financial investments to ecosystem regime shifts

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101526

André Pinto da Silva , Nielja Knecht , Romain Thomas , Romi Lotcheris , Beatrice Crona , Juan Carlos Rocha

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Public finance allocation does not reflect biodiversity priorities

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101524

Odirilwe Selomane , Michelle Fourie , Sally Archibald , Laura Pereira , Nadia Sitas , Kim Zoeller

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Sustainable finance, biodiversity, and greenwashing: how contested values, metrics, and causation facilitate information distortion, information omission, and information pollution

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101522

Job de Grefte, Boudewijn de Bruin

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Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101525

Fern Wickson , Lauren Lambert , Michael Bernstein

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Location, location, location: asset location data sources for nature-related financial risk analysis

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101527

Christophe Christiaen, Philippa Lockwood, Alex Jackman, Ben Caldecott

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The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin: a case for an adaptive governance approach

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101523

Lembe Tiky , Melvis Ndiloseh

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Productivity versus sustainability: paradigms of climate-resilient development in South Asian smallholder agriculture

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101520

Gautam Prateek

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The transformative potential of eDNA-based biodiversity impact assessment 基于电子 DNA 的生物多样性影响评估的变革潜力

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101517

Emma Granqvist , Robert M Goodsell , Mats Töpel , Fredrik Ronquist

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Community-based approaches to biodiversity finance

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101521

Rosemary Hill , Diane Jarvis , Kirsten Maclean , Diego O Melgar , Emma Woodward , Rodney Carter , Ewamian Limited , Whitney Rassip , Phil Rist , Edmundo Claro

{"title":"Community-based approaches to biodiversity finance","authors":"Rosemary Hill , Diane Jarvis , Kirsten Maclean , Diego O Melgar , Emma Woodward , Rodney Carter , Ewamian Limited , Whitney Rassip , Phil Rist , Edmundo Claro","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101521","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101521","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Indigenous peoples and local communities live in, manage, and own large regions and require investment to finance their biodiversity management strategies. Their approaches are proactive and powerful, with clear agency to drive futures that include consistent biodiversity finance. Our literature review and illustrative case studies highlight five factors that influence how communities forge pathways based on their world views and knowledge systems, underpinned by recognition of rights, compensation for damage by colonizers, and establishment of organizations with culturally valid governance to leverage biodiversity finance. Global actors, such as the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, need to understand the history and characteristics of these pathways and tailor their finance to suit — for example, to finance governance and organizational development for some and protected area management for others.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101521"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143549340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Barriers and limits to adaptation in the Arctic 北极地区适应气候变化的障碍和限制

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101519

Ishfaq Hussain Malik , James D Ford

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