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Projects
Towards resilient European forests
Building the ForestWard Observatory, a pan-European monitoring and evaluation tool, to demonstrate climate change impacts on forests and to guide decision-making for better forest management.
More...Better decisions for biodiversity and people
Understand and influence decision-making affecting biodiversity.
More...Nature-based solutions for more inclusive and resilient communities
We explore how nature-based solutions can contribute to the societal change needed to address the biodiversity and climate crisis.
More...Ecologically sustainable nutrient management
Several innovative technologies will be deployed to reduce fertiliser use by at least 20% by 2030.
More...News
Publication
Diverse values of nature for sustainability
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Eszter Kelemen is among the authors of the article published in Nature on 8 August, 2023
Pascual, U., Balvanera, P., Anderson, C.B. et al. Diverse values of nature for sustainability. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06406-9
More...The first grant call opens in the FORWARDS project
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The FORWARDS project aims to set up the ForestWard Observatory – a long-lasting decision support tool to aid climate-smart and sustainable forest decisions at EU, national, and local levels. The ForestWard Observatory will draw on available networks and data streams to apply pioneering approaches, and therefore it will launch at least five grant calls with a total value of EUR 6 million to fund 50 pilot projects.
More...Communiqué on EU-funding restrictions
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The European Commission has recently communicated through several channels that certain Hungarian organisations are excluded from EU funding.
This does not apply to ESSRG.
The Decision (EU) 2022/2506 concerns institutions that are public interest trusts established based on the Hungarian Act IX of 2021 or any entity maintained by such a public interest trust. As far as we know, at this moment, this restriction affects about 20 entities in Hungary (mainly universities).
ESSRG is an independent, private (owned by researchers), non-profit research company, and we have no connection with public interest trusts.
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Further concepts and approaches for enhancing food system resilience
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New publication by Bálint Balázs et al in Nature Food, Correspondence
Published May 31, 2023
Ingram, J., Bellotti, W., Brklacich, M. et al. Further concepts and approaches for enhancing food system resilience. Nat Food (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00762-5
More...Zsófia Benedek’s recent paper on the transformative potential of Hungarian local food-buying clubs
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The study describes the development trends of local food-buying clubs (BCs) in Hungary and analyses how this type of grassroots initiative can contribute to the sustainability transition. BCs are consumer-driven organizations aiming to connect local food producers with consumers.
More...Typology of challenges that hinder the implementation of BDS 2030
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The first deliverable of the project BioAgora about the challenges of implementing the EU’s Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 has been published.
Authors: Attila Lenti, Eszter Kelemen, Kármen Czett, Carla Klusmann, György Pataki