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Mapping the planet’s critical areas for biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people - Nature Communications
Abstract Meeting global commitments to conservation, climate, and sustainable development requires consideration of synergies and tradeoffs among targets. We evaluate the spatial congruence of ecosystems providing globally high levels of nature’s contributions to people, biodiversity, and areas with high development potential across several sectors.
Mapping the planet’s critical natural assets - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Modelling NCP The 14 NCP in this analysis (Extended Data Fig. 1) were chosen to span development and climate goals, and to be mappable with spatially explicit data representing the period 2000–2020. We use European Space Agency (ESA) 2015, for land cover at 10 arcsec (~300 m at the equator) resolution, Landscan 2017 for population60 at 30 arcsec (~1 km) resolution (which were the most current data available at the time we began our analysis).
Opinion: We need biosphere stewardship that protects carbon sinks and builds resilience
Earth’s biosphere, its extraordinary and complex web of species and ecosystems on land and in the oceans, drives the life-sustaining cycles of water and other materials that enable all life on Earth to thrive. The biosphere is also a principal driver of immense negative feedback loops in the Earth system that stabilize atmospheric CO2 concentrations and thereby global climate—including carbon sequestration by vegetation, soils, and the oceans.
Ask the Experts: How can I manage the costs of a patent?
In previous articles, we addressed the questions of whether applying for a patent is appropriate, and if so, when this should be done. This article addresses questions around the process for filing a patent. Q: Could I file the application myself, and then ask a patent attorney for help if I get stuck later? A: Although this is possible, it may be the case that by the time you ask for help, there is little that can be done to resolve any problems.
Ask the Experts: Can a patent attorney help your business?
If you have watched the BBC programme ‘Dragons Den’, you’ll almost certainly have heard entrepreneurs asked about intellectual property rights, such as patents, design rights, trademarks and so on. These rights can significantly increase the value of your business because they can provide a barrier to competitors hoping to use similar technologies or branding. They may also provide an income in their own right, if you license the rights to others.
If you claim ‘a duck’, does it have to quack? – Construction of technical terms
David Hole, Associate at EIP, explores the construction of technical terms. It is said that ‘if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck’. However, if a claim refers to ‘a duck’ feature, what does that imply about how the claimed feature walks or quacks? In two cases involving the same parties relating to patents said to be essential to 3GPP standards, the claims defined features using terms that already had some technical connotations.
Global reforestation and biodiversity conservation
Abstract en The loss of forest is a leading cause of species extinction, and reforestation is 1 of 2 established interventions for reversing this loss. However, the role of reforestation for biodiversity conservation remains debated, and lacking is an assessment of the potential contribution that reforestation could make to biodiversity conservation globally.
The private sector’s climate change risk and adaptation blind spots
Abstract The private sector is already experiencing the impacts of climate change, from increased operational costs to disrupted production. Investors are increasingly asking companies to disclose these risks as the physical consequences of climate change become financially material. In reviewing more than 1,600 corporate adaptation strategies, we find significant blind spots in companies’ assessments of climate change impacts and in their development of strategies for managing them.
58,046 fruit flies shed light on 100-year old evolutionary question
Why do certain body shape and size relationships remain consistent over millions of years? Throughout the natural world, shape, physiology and behavior are strongly related to the size of the organisms. These relationships are found both within species and between species, and often remain unchanged in species separated for millions of years.
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