Co-produced transformative knowledge to accelerate change for biodiversity

Project Information

RAINFOREST

Grant agreement ID: 101081744

DOI

10.3030/101081744

Project closed

EC signature date 4 October 2022

Start date 1 December 2022

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 3 314 529,00

EU contribution

€ 3 314 529,00

Coordinated by

NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU
Norway

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Deliverables

Data Management Plan (2)

Data Management Plan final

The final version of the DMP will be drafted and prepared by the end of the project.

Data Management Plan initial

Plan for managing the data. The continuous monitoring of all other activities is by default part of the periodic reports to the EU. Thus, they do not require an additional Deliverable

Documents, reports (15)

Policy Brief: Transitions in trade and international cooperation to meet biodiversity challenges with focus on beef and soybean value chains

Focusing on beef and soybean value chains this Policy Brief will provide suggestions/recommendations on innovative, just and transitional policies that recognize telecoupling in governance systems between the EU and Brazil (T4.4).

Quantification of climate change and biodiversity implications of alternative pathways for sustainable fishery and fishmeal production

This scientific report will guide corporate and governmental policy-making pathways for sustainable fish extraction and production (T3.3.2).

Report synthesizing lessons learned from pathways analysis

IIASA will coordinate contributions from partners in a report synthesizing lessons learned from the quantitative pathway analysis (T5.2). This will form a key source of recommendations for D6.4 (a joint deliverable with WP6).

Effective and socially desirable policy-technology mixes with transformative potential for biodiversity conservation

This Scientific Report will provide stakeholder and policy actor suggestions/recommendations on empirically valid policy-technology mixes with transformative potential for biodiversity conservation (T3.1 and T3.2.1).

Initial toolbox design including the selection and implementation of environmental and socio-economic SDG indicator

The practical framework of the initial model toolbox will include the selection of a suite of indicators to address biodiversity, ecosystem services, climate change, and socio-economic consequences of transformative change (T2.1 and T2.2).

Report on co-produced transformative change pathways for biodiversity, update

The report drafted in D1.1 at month 9 will be updated to allow a better reporting and monitoring of activities.

Policy Brief: Transitioning national and sub-national governance to address the food/biomass and climate-mitigation nexus

The Policy Brief will provide stakeholder and policy actor suggestions/recommendations on innovative, just and transitional governance arrangements at the national and sub-national scales with a focus on the food/biomass and climate-mitigation nexus, namely governance of food consumption and production with special attention to dietary policy in the U.K. and Germany (T4.3).

Report on workshop 1

NTNU will coordinate contributions from partners regarding the outcomes and lessons learnt from workshop 1

Report on co-produced transformative change pathways for biodiversity

The report will describe key elements (T1.1-3) and their combination (T1.4) into a set of co-produced new, just and viable pathways for biodiversity through transformative change in the EU food and biomass nexus between climate action, biodiversity conservation and restoration, production, trade, consumption, and human behavior. A draft of pathways will be delivered at month 9, contributing to the first key milestone of the project (M2). The deliverable will be updated at month 24 with an overview of downscaled targets (T1.3.2) and the final version of the pathways (T1.4.2).

Quantification of climate change and biodiversity implications of EU plant-forward meal scenarios

This scientific report will inform corporate policymakers how to sustainably shift towards plant-forward food production (T3.3.2).

Policy Brief: Transitioning EU governance to address the food/biomass and climate-mitigation nexus

The Policy Brief will provide stakeholder and policy actor suggestions/recommendations on innovative, just and transitional EC governance (interventions/policies/initiatives) with a focus on convergence of food/biomass and climate change mitigation policies (T4.2).

Report synthesizing lessons learned from case studies

IIASA will coordinate contributions from partners in a report synthesizing lessons learned from the quantitative case studies (T5.4). This will form a key source of recommendations for D6.4 (a joint deliverable with WP6).

Policy Brief: Transitioning governance in the touristic food chain
Policy-Business Brief: Transitions in business models to address the biodiversity funding gap

The Policy Brief will provide business and stakeholder suggestions/recommendations on innovative, just and transitional business models to address the biodiversity funding gap (T4.1).

Policy Brief: Enabling transformative change for biodiversity conservation

Findings and outcomes generated in WP3 are synthesized into a policy brief (T.3.4).

Data sets, microdata, etc (1)

Database of downscaled targets

The database will contain different sets of downscaled actionable targets that (i) are specific at a level of geographies and sectors that is useful for the project’s case studies and involved stakeholder groups; (ii) are aligned with different overall biodiversity pathways developed in the project; (iii) follow co-produced downscaling principles that represent different worldviews and equity considerations.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Mapping Instrument Preferences for Deforestation Policies Based on <scp>EU</scp> Public Consultation Data

Author(s): Daniel Braun, Dennis Abel, Jan Börner
Published in: Environmental Policy and Governance, Issue 36, 2026, ISSN 1756-932X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/EET.70036

Mapping Instrument Preferences for Deforestation Policies Based on <scp>EU</scp> Public Consultation Data

Author(s): Daniel Braun, Dennis Abel, Jan Börner
Published in: Environmental Policy and Governance, Issue 36, 2026, ISSN 1756-932X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/EET.70036

Relationships between mean species abundance (MSA) and potentially disappeared fraction of species (PDF) are consistent but also uncertain

Author(s): Koen JJ. Kuipers; Adam Melki; Stephane Morel; Aafke M. Schipper
Published in: Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 2025, ISSN 2665-9727
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.INDIC.2025.100652

Telecoupling of governance systems under the EU deforestation regulation: Scenarios for the Brazilian beef and soy value chains

Author(s): Jochen Dürr, Thomas Dietz, Jan Börner
Published in: Forest Policy and Economics, Issue 185, 2026, ISSN 1389-9341
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.FORPOL.2026.103725

Can we bend the curve: Trends in global biodiversity scenarios

Author(s): Flavia Aschi; Stefan C. Dekker; David Leclère; Alexandra Marques; Christian Neumann; Geanderson Ambrosio; Detlef P. van Vuuren
Published in: Science Advances, 2026, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/SCIADV.AEB2277

Terrestrial biodiversity impacts of replacing beef with alternative-protein burger patties across ten European Union Countries

Author(s): Yeqing Zhang, Kajwan Rasul, Martin Dorber, Konstantin Stadler, Edgar G. Hertwich, Francesca Verones
Published in: Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2026, ISSN 1088-1980
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S44498-026-00120-1

Modest forest and welfare gains from initiatives for reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation

Author(s): Sven Wunder; Dario Schulz; Javier G. Montoya-Zumaeta; Jan Börner; Gabriel Ponzoni Frey; Bibiana Betancur-Corredor
Published in: Communications Earth &amp; Environment, 2024, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.48350/199172

Examining global biodiversity accounts: Implications of aggregating characterization factors from elementary flows in multi‐regional input–output analysis

Author(s): Killian Davin; Maximilian Koslowski; Martin Dorber; Edgar Hertwich
Published in: Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2024, ISSN 1530-9290
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/JIEC.13556

Blind spots in the EU’s Regulation on Deforestation-free products

Author(s): Gustavo M. Oliveira; Rafaella F. Ziegert; Andrea Pacheco; Laila Berning; Metodi Sotirov; Jochen Dürr; Daniel Braun; Felipe S. M. Nunes; Britaldo S. Soares-Filho; Jan Börner
Published in: Nature Ecology Evolution, 2024, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41559-024-02465-X

Conceptualizing irreconcilable disagreements in the nature futures framework over intrinsic and instrumental values

Author(s): Elliott Woodhouse
Published in: Environmental Values, 2026, ISSN 0963-2719
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09632719261437695

Quantifying the differences between EXIOBASE and FABIO for land use footprint studies: the case of beef consumption in six selected countries

Author(s): Yeqing Zhang, Kajwan Rasul, Francesca Verones, Edgar Hertwich
Published in: Environmental Research: Food Systems, Issue 2, 2025, ISSN 2976-601X
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2976-601X/ADE71E

Energy input and food output: The energy imbalance across regional agrifood systems

Author(s): Kajwan Rasul; Martin Bruckner; Finn Mempel; Stefan Trsek; Edgar G Hertwich
Published in: PNAS Nexus, 2024, ISSN 2752-6542
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.3929/ETHZ-B-000713373

Comparison of three biodiversity metrics to evaluate corporate no net loss achievement under spatial constraints

Author(s): Margaux Durand, Leon Bennun, Joshua Berger, Alison Eyres, Koen J.J. Kuipers, Louise Mair, Aafke M. Schipper, Vincent Martinet
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management, Issue 396, 2026, ISSN 0301-4797
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2025.128158

Pro animal-based or pro plant-based? A multi-country consumer segmentation and profiling on willingness to pay for animal- versus plant-based meat and dairy products

Author(s): Rachelle de Vries, Nicole Neufingerl, Elizabeth H. Zandstra
Published in: Future Foods, Issue 13, 2026, ISSN 2666-8335
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.FUFO.2026.101005

Main challenges for measuring the sustainability of the marine ingredients industry: a systematic and critical review

Author(s): David Baptista de Sousa, Ian Vázquez-Rowe, Ramzy Kahhat
Published in: Aquaculture, Issue 613, 2026, ISSN 0044-8486
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.AQUACULTURE.2025.743287