Matthew Cantele

TL;DR: It is concluded that Sustainable Consumption and Production policies (goal 12) are most effective at minimizing trade-offs and argue for their centrality to the formulation of coherent SDG strategies.

TL;DR: This paper showed that Australia's annual spending on targeted threatened species recovery is around US$92m (AU$122m) which is around one tenth of that spent by the U.S. endangered species recovery program and about 15% of what is needed to avoid extinctions and recover threatened species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used scenario archetypes in the IPBES Regional Assessment of Europe and Central Asia (RACE) to assess future interactions between nature and society, and found that proactive decision making on environmental issues, environmental management approaches that support multifunctionality, and mainstreaming environmental issues across sectors, are generally more successful in mitigating trade-offs than isolated environmental policies.

TL;DR: The assessment of land degradation and restoration by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services shows that land degradation across the globe is a wide and severe issue and is showing no signs of slowing down.