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Members of 4C have joined with economics and conservation science colleagues in an opinion piece in Science highlighting the problem that efforts to safeguard and restore biodiversity in places which produce food or wood risk simply displacing that production elsewhere. Such leakage is acknowledged as a significant issue...

Our work on LIFE (a metric for mapping the impact of land-cover change on global extinctions) is now available in the proceedings of the Royal Society Philosophical Transactions B. As with all of our outputs, the code and datasets are available under liberal licenses (within the bounds of the restrictions imposed on us by...

Nature-based solutions (NbS) present a promising approach for protecting biodiversity while meeting ambitious climate targets, but there is growing international concern that they are sometimes linked to significant justice and equity concerns. Current reporting practices often require only superficial descriptions of how...

The University of Cambridge's annual sustainability report for last year is now available online here , and provides details of the University's efforts towards reducing our collective impact on the planet. 4C has been working closely with the University towards a common understanding of when and where offsets should be...