Publications

The 12 th meeting of the IPBES Plenary (IPBES-12) was held in Manchester, UK, from 3–9 February 2026, preceded as usual by regional consultations and a Stakeholder Day on 2 February. The largest individual focus of the meeting was the consideration of the report of The Methodological Assessment of the Impact and Dependence of Business on...

Aquatic food systems are essential to global food security and biodiversity but remain underserved by existing sustainability indexes, especially amid rising uncertainties and accelerating climate change. Current frameworks are fragmented, environmentally weighted, and insufficiently inclusive of social, economic, and governance dimensions. As we...

Sunda clouded leopard conservation requires understanding key species traits. Using photo-identification, we estimated lifespans from minimum residence times, documenting the oldest wild individual known to date—a 6.51-year-old female. We discuss methodological limitations in female detectability and transient individuals in the population and...

Climate variability poses a serious challenge to the sustainability of fragile mountain ecosystems where local livelihoods are closely dependent on natural resources. However, limited studies have examined long-term trends and local perceptions of climate variability in the north-eastern region of Dimapur district of Nagaland state in India. Thus...

The intensification of agriculture, coupled with unregulated fertilizer application and groundwater overexploitation, has led to widespread nitrate (NO3􀀀 ) contamination in many agrarian regions, including the Malwa region of Punjab, India. This study employs the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) system to simulate the spatio-temporal evolution...

Bangalore, a rapidly urbanizing technological hub, faces escalating energy demands that require sustainable solutions. This study uses Google Earth Engine to assess Bangalore's solar energy potential through geospatial modeling and advanced suitability analysis. Utilizing high-resolution geospatial data, this study analyzed environmental and...

Effective disaster risk reduction in developing countries requires policies that are systematically informed by scientific evidence. This paper investigates how science–policy integration for disaster management and climate adaptation has been institutionalised in three international reference cases (Japan, the United States, and the Netherlands)...

Agricultural smoke from rice residue fires is now regarded as a dominant source of India’s autumn haze. Yet, the degree to which yield-driven intensification amplifies this pollution remains uncertain. To assess this environmental issue, there is an urgent need to analyze long-term datasets and to develop fine-grained fire-severity mapping. This...

The Seventh G20 Report on Action against Marine Plastic Litter is the seventh compilation of policies and measures undertaken by countries and international organisations globally to tackle marine plastic litter, and is prepared under the leadership of South Africa, the G20 Presidency for 2025, in collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment...

Agriculture lies at the centre of the climate change challenge, simultaneously functioning as a highly climate-vulnerable sector and a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions through land use, crop production, livestock, and food systems. This presentation examines the climate change–agriculture nexus through a comparative analysis of...