In 2017, the American Psychological Association published a report describing the mental health impacts of climate change. In this report, they used the term ‘eco-anxiety’ to describe “a chronic fear of environmental doom.” During the recent climate protests that have taken place around the world, the scale of environmental degradation has been thrust into public awareness.

Nominated by E.J. Milner-Gulland, Melissa is the first WCN scholarship recipient from Ecuador. With WCN’s support, she is completing her PhD at the University of Oxford, where her research seeks to fill the knowledge gap surrounding jaguar poaching and the illegal wildlife trade taking place in Latin America. Currently, there is limited knowledge of these illegal activities and their impacts…

ICCS is a key partner of the UKRI GCRF Trade, Development and the Environment  TRADE Hub, led by UNEP-WCMC, and funded by the UK Research and Innovation’s Global Challenges Research Fund. It is the first research hub of its kind, bringing together over 50 organisations from 15 different countries to help make trade sustainable for people and the planet.

Nature is moving to the top of the international agenda. The loss of biodiversity is increasingly recognised as a crisis, linked to climate change, which needs urgent action. But without a framework that translates actions at the local level into international commitments, it is difficult to know how to structure and report on the contributions being made by people and organisations around the…

The way we produce and consume food has a huge bearing on biodiversity loss, deforestation, climate change, water scarcity, and water pollution. However, we have very limited information on the sustainability of different food producers or production practices across the indicators that we should be tracking. Specifically: