• UNEP-WCMC Updates the Global Critical Habitat Screening Layer 

    UNEP-WCMC experts provide a crucial update to the global Critical Habitat screening layer.  In a paper published this month, UNEP-WCMC, alongside partner institutions, released a comprehensive update to the global Critical Habitat screening layer, finding a significant increase in areas defined as “Potential” or “Likely Critical Habitat”. In this case, “Critical Habitat” refers to areas…

    UNEP-WCMC Updates the Global Critical Habitat Screening Layer 
  • Opportunities for companies to lead on the nature and health nexus 

    We reflect on the nexus of nature and health and how it relates to business. In anticipation of the upcoming 2026 Nature Action Dialogues, we reflect on emerging nature-related themes impacting businesses. One key theme is health and nature. In 2025’s dialogues, UNEP-WCMC, together with Globalbalance hosted a roundtable titled “The Health–Nature Nexus: The Case…

    Opportunities for companies to lead on the nature and health nexus 
  • TRADE Hub advanced sustainable agricultural commodity supply chains across the EU and beyond 

    UNEP-WCMC’s TRADE Hub project contributed to advancing sustainable agricultural research and policy practice across Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.  The Trade, Development and Environment Hub (TRADE Hub) was a five-year project that significantly advanced research on agricultural commodities, wild meat and wildlife trade. Not only did it conduct research in over nine countries, but…

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    TRADE Hub advanced sustainable agricultural commodity supply chains across the EU and beyond 
  • A tiger looking out from a mangrove forest

    A boost for biodiversity data

    Record-level growth of investment in Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool will have real impacts for nature data

    A boost for biodiversity data
  • Combining landscape and supply chain approaches to protect nature 

    Under the Proteus Partnership, UNEP-WCMC has been exploring how companies can use supply chain sustainability initiatives and Landscape-level Approaches (LLAs) to conserve and restore landscapes along their supply chains and operations.   Companies depend on nature, yet ecosystems across the world are being degraded. All businesses rely on healthy and functioning landscapes for their direct…

    Combining landscape and supply chain approaches to protect nature