The 2025 Alternet conference took place in the beautiful city of Aveiro, Portugal from 13-16 May, bringing together researchers, experts and decision makers with a common goal of realising transformation for sustainability. This year’s theme dubbed, “Achieving Transformative Change for Biodiversity” sought to explore the root causes of biodiversity decline and how to drive fundamental... Continue Reading →
Exploring System Mapping and Leverage Points in the PLANET4B Project
How can we make better decisions for biodiversity on individual and institutional levels? One approach used by the PLANET4B project to tackle this question involves system mapping, leverage point analysis, and identifying key intervention points across various sectors and regions. The recently published "Report on System Mapping and Leverage Points for Each Case" presents findings... Continue Reading →
Reflecting on the PLANET4B 3rd Consortium Meeting in Budapest
The PLANET4B 3rd Consortium Meeting took place from October 8th to 10th, 2024, in Budapest. It was an insightful gathering aimed at advancing the project's objectives. Held at the centrally located Impact Hub Budapest, the meeting brought together all project partners to review progress, share findings, and strategize the next steps. Over three days, project... Continue Reading →
Our department at the Earth System Governance conference & PLANET4B project consortium meeting
In the week of 23-27 October 2023, the Department of Human Dimensions of Global Change was represented at two events in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, as part of the ongoing activities of the PLANET4B project. The 2023 Radboud conference on Earth System Governance brought together different scientific disciplines and stakeholders from different sectors to connect science... Continue Reading →
Launching project Planet4B (Horizon RIA)
It has long been known that higher levels of biodiversity underpin good ecosystem health and functions and, conversely, continued biodiversity loss threatens both the biosphere and human life. Research provides evidence supporitng these facts and identifies the main cause - humans. The world’s ecosystem may undergo drastic changes and even alter to new states thanks... Continue Reading →











