On January 30, the Telecoupling Research Towards Sustainable Transformation of Land Systems Working Group held a webinar on the implications of international interventions towards sustainable (ecological) development with a focus on two new governance initiatives Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Targets, aiming to bend the curve of biodiversity loss, and the EU Regulation (GBF) on Deforestation-Free Products (EUDR).
These interventions have a strong potential to deliver positive outcomes for nature, however, trade-offs with social-economic development goals and unintended negative ecological consequences could also be expected. The telecoupling framework could be used to anticipate and report impacts of these governance initiatives on the ground, but also to identify feedback mechanisms and unintended spill-overs to other land- or social-ecological systems.
The webinar, a follow up to the working group’s session at the 5th GLP OSM in Oaxaca, was hosted by working group coordinators Cecilie Friis and Maria Jose Ibarrola-Rivas. It featured the research of Kattia Díaz Ydones (Wyss Academy for Nature) on “Telecoupling, International Governance, and ASGM in Madre de Dios,” Diana Ramirez Mejia (Vrie Universiteit Amsterdam) on “Anticipating the Displaced: Consequences of Global Biodiversity Targets,” and Johanna Coenen (Stockholm University) on “Conditions for an Effective EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products.” Panelist presentations were followed by lively discussion among members.
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