The Biodiversity and Forests thematic action lies in the recognition of African ecosystems as vital providers of essential services to humanity and critical components of the planet's intricate system. Sustainable management of ecosystem resources passes through knowledge-based, concerted, and coordinated efforts at the global, national and regional level. Many challenges are faced in this quest for sustainability, in particular:
Closing the gap: Research predominantly originates from the North, leaving Southern research centers underdeveloped.
Strengthening excellence: Existing African centers of excellence require substantial investments to enhance their capacity.
Enhancing collaboration: Sharing knowledge within the scientific community, with practitioners, and policymakers remains insufficient.
The Biodiversity and Forest thematic action supports the consolidation and long-term sustainability of initiatives aimed at leveraging data, information, and capacity building for decision-making. From global to local scales, aims to track progress towards conservation targets, creating and managing data and information for informed decision-making.
Africa’s extraordinary richness in biodiversity and ecosystem services comprises a strategic asset for sustainable development. Yet the decline and loss of biodiversity hampers the sustainable social ...
Africa’s extraordinary richness in biodiversity and ecosystem services comprises a strategic asset for sustainable development. Yet the decline and loss of biodiversity hampers the sustainable social ...
Africa’s extraordinary richness in biodiversity and ecosystem services comprises a strategic asset for sustainable development. Yet the decline and loss of biodiversity hampers the sustainable social ...
Africa’s extraordinary richness in biodiversity and ecosystem services comprises a strategic asset for sustainable development. Yet the decline and loss of biodiversity hampers the sustainable social ...
The Dead Wood Carbon and Litter Carbon pools have been estimated at global level as constant fractions of ESA Biomass CCI Above Ground Biomass (AGB), v.3 (2018) using a lookup table based on global ec...
Africa’s extraordinary richness in biodiversity and ecosystem services comprises a strategic asset for sustainable development. Yet the decline and loss of biodiversity hampers the sustainable social ...
Ecosystem condition indicates whether the natural environment is intact and connected. Poor ecosystem condition can result in businesses having restricted access in the long-term to the quantity and q...
Physical Risk is driven by the ways in which a business depends on nature and can be affected by both natural and human-induced conditions of land- and seascapes. It comprises the risk categories: 1) ...
This indicator measures forest canopy loss. Land- and sea-use change is the major human influence on habitats. Habitat loss is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity and is the number one reason s...
This indicator measures the availability of natural and cultural resources. Some industries, such as tourism, real estate and education, can depend highly on the presence of touristic valuable land or...
The African Development Corridors published by Thorn, J.P.R., Bignoli, D.J., Mwangi, B. et al. The African Development Corridors Database: a new tool to assess the impacts of infrastructure investment...
