Creating leverage to enhance biodiversity outcomes of global biomass trade

News & events

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  From EU biodiversity policy to global impact: driving nature-positive change worldwide

  March 26, 2026March 26, 2026

  As a collaborative output of different projects including CLEVER, our policy brief Leveraging EU biodiversity policy towards net positive impacts on global biodiversity outlines a science-based strategy to align EU policies for global biodiversity restoration. It addresses the insufficient progress toward Biodiversity Strategy 2030 targets caused by unsustainable practices, climate change, and geopolitical tensions. The …

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  The CLEVER Innovation Action Pool: Joint efforts to curb biodiversity impacts from biomass trade

  October 16, 2025October 16, 2025

  The CLEVER Innovation Action Pool works on new ways to make biomass trade more sustainable and less harmful to biodiversity. It looks at how public policies and private sector actions can be improved to strengthen sustainability across key value chains—such as soy, timber, wood pulp, and fishmeal—traded from Brazil and Central Africa to the EU. …

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  CLEVER’s Pathways From Global Trade to Biodiversity Policy Action

  September 9, 2025September 9, 2025

  What does it take to make Europe’s global trade truly sustainable for biodiversity? At the Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Policy Making conference in Brussels, CLEVER presented insights from three years of research on how EU trade and consumption affect ecosystems worldwide. Our work focuses on three main areas: the Brazilian soy value chain, timber from Cameroon, …

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  Video: Science-based policy to protect biodiversity -Insights from the IPBES Nexus Assessment

  July 31, 2025July 31, 2025

  How can we design policies that support biodiversity while also addressing climate change, food systems, health, and water? In this video interview, Andrea Pacheco, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bonn and part of the CLEVER project, shares insights from her work as a fellow in the IPBES Nexus Assessment. This global scientific effort …

Work
packages

WP1

Coordination, partnerships, and synthesis

WP2

Quantifying biodiversity impacts and conceptualizing biomass trade linkages

WP3

Causal effects and leakage in trade-biodiversity linkages

WP4

Theories of change and policy analysis for public and private value chain interventions

WP5

Actor behavior and leverage points along international value chains

WP6

Representing ecological footprints and policy-trade-biodiversity linkages in global modelling

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Scenario-based assessment of policy impacts and SDG interrelationships

WP8

Solution co-design and communication for transformational change

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