The first two webinars of the BIONEXT project took place in autumn 2025, offering thought-provoking insights into the interlinkages between biodiversity and major societal systems, and introducing fresh policy recommendations from two research projects.

In December 2024, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released the Summary for Policymakers of its Nexus assessment. Now, the chapters that underpin the Summary for Policymakers have just been made publicly available. But what was it like to co-chair this landmark report?

In December 2024, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released a groundbreaking scientific report called the Nexus Assessment that may change how the world tackles its greatest environmental and societal challenges. At its core, the report delivers one clear message: our crises are connected, and so must be our responses.

In this webinar, we will explore new research methodologies and fresh insights that reveal how nexus thinking can help design nature-positive futures.

In May 2025, the BIONEXT project held its third international workshop - this time in the spa town of Teplice in the Czech Republic, a region deeply shaped by both ecological degradation and the promise of renewal. This year's gathering focused on advancing transition pathways toward a nature-centered Europe.

International webinar to explore science-based insights and actionable policy recommendations for driving transformative change.

Under the Transformative Change for Biodiversity cluster, a group of Horizon Europe-funded project are pleased to announce an online event dedicated to biodiversity, to be held on June 5, 2025.

The health of humans, animals, plants, and ecosystems is deeply interconnected and mutually dependent. This idea is adopted within the "One Health" approach. But what is One Health and why should we care about it?

Halting and reversing biodiversity loss calls for ever more substantial efforts across the globe. There is broad consensus that transformative changes are needed. However, in the BIONEXT project we have learned that transformative change as a concept lacks concreteness. To deepen the understanding of the making of transformative change, we in the BIONEXT project have studied the options for change that evolve through bottom-up action.

To explore the role of businesses in combating biodiversity loss, we spoke with three experts – Martin Lok, Anna Chilton, and Katarzyna Dulko-Gaszyna – who are engaged in the business world, to hear their perspectives on the future and the vital role businesses play in shaping it.

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) will publish two significant assessments in December. To assist media coverage, we are providing a list of IPBES authors available for interviews regarding the nexus assessment and its European perspective.

For 2 weeks in October, COP16 took over Cali. While it has been hailed as a “historic” “people’s” COP, many have criticised the summit for falling short on agreements on finance and monitoring. But what actually were the key decisions made at COP16, and what could they mean for transformative change?

The recently adopted European Union (EU) Nature Restoration Regulation is a new legislative development that represents the first time that legally binding EU-wide restoration targets and objectives have been set.

Today, we are witnessing an alarming decline in global biodiversity: more than a million species are threatened with extinction and many critical ecosystems destroyed or severely degraded. Global ecosystem collapse may be closer than we think if we fail to mitigate these trends. The implications would be far-reaching and catastrophic, extending beyond ecological concerns. So how does biodiversity loss affect our society?

A future where nature and society are thriving together, with biodiversity at the heart of our decisions shaping and governing society: how do we get there? And how can we trigger such transformative change?

To halt or reverse biodiversity loss, it is critical to understand the role of biodiversity in food production and consumption, water quality and availability, climate regulation and mitigation, human and ecosystem health, energy production and means of transportation.

Through an iterative process of knowledge co-production, we BIONEXT researchers collaborate with a diverse group of stakeholders in four workshops to design desirable futures and multiple just transition pathways.

With the global climate negotiations progressing, and countries now - for the first time ever! - being called on to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems, the role of biodiversity in tackling the climate crisis is becoming more and more apparent. But how did the COP28 in Dubai reflect nature and biodiversity loss?

When discussing major challenges like biodiversity loss, climate change and social injustices, fixing each separately isn’t enough. We need to change how we deal with the natural world altogether – we need transformative change. But what exactly is this change and why is it crucial for our environment and us?

The European Commission funded the BIONEXT project with 4.1 million euros. We in the project asked the European Commission why the project was funded to shed light on the importance of the project. The answers were provided by our project officer Colombe Warin who works at the European Research Executive Agency (REA) as a project adviser.