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20.12.23
COP 28 Climate Summit: Acknowledging Progress, Facing Challenges, and Brazil’s Role for a Sustainable Future
20.12.23
What are NbS and what are their contributions to mitigation and adaptation in the face of climate change?
20.09.23
Bernardo Strassburg, president of IIS, has been elected as the “Sustainability Leader of the Year for 2023”
15.09.23
IIS is one of the winners of the “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Scenario Modelling Challenge”
06.01.23
IIS contributes to different targets of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (Post-2020 GBF)
16.11.22
IIS president Bernardo Strassburg is one of the 20 Brazilian highly cited scientists in the world
11.05.22
IIS´s project is selected in the second call for funding from the Land Innovation Fund for South America
04.02.22
Bernardo Strassburg, Executive Director of IIS, listed as one of the best scientists in the world by Stanford University and Elsevier
28.01.21
Consultative workshops to identify priority areas for the recovery of native vegetation in the Caatinga, Pampa and Pantanal
14.10.20
Restoring 30% of the world’s ecosystems in priority areas could stave off more than 70% of projected extinctions and absorb nearly half of the carbon built up in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution
09.07.20
Economic Benefits of Protecting 30% of Planet’s Land and Ocean Outweigh the Costs at Least 5-to-1
07.11.19
“Living in harmony with Nature” – second day of the Thematic Consultation on Ecosystem Restoration discusses how to achieve the 2050 Vision
07.11.19
The first day of the Thematic Consultation on Ecosystem Restoration of the Convention on Biological Diversity
23.08.19
IIS and BPBES launch Summary for decision-makers of the thematic report “Landscape and Ecosystem Restoration”
19.08.19
Unprecedent study in Brazil reveals how biochar recovers degraded pasturelands, increases agricultural productivity and helps preserve the environment
04.07.19
New study reveals that the Atlantic Forest demonstrates the best opportunities for the restoration of tropical forests around the world
25.06.19
Conservation and restoration of nature: challenges and solutions for the future of the planet
04.06.19
Pact for the Atlantic Forest Restoration: New study shows that large-scale restoration is already happening in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
06.05.19
Bernardo Strassburg is one of the leader authors of the new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
01.05.19
What is the value of the economic damage caused by climate change in Brazilian critical infrastructures?
17.12.18
Study shows that restoring nature with spatial intelligence can triple its benefits while halving costs
12.12.18
IIS and Ministry of the Environment launch project for biodiversity conservation and rural landscapes in private areas
12.12.18
“Secretaria of State for the Environment and INEA present report of the “”Climate Adaptation Plan of the State of Rio de Janeiro”””
04.07.18
I Symposium of Ecological Restoration of the State of Rio de Janeiro is a little less than one month way!
25.01.18
Fernanda Tubenchlak, from IIS, talks about restoration in Rio de Janeiro state during the II Meeting of the Fluminense forestry observatory
04.12.17
One more published article from the IIS team and partners: Best practice for the use of scenarios for restoration planning
09.11.17
Ecological restoration success is higher for natural regeneration than for active restoration in tropical forests
27.10.17
” On October 20-23, the International Institute for Sustainability (IIS) participated in the “”City and Civil Society Organizations Summit – 2017″” event in Istanbul / Turkey.”
06.09.17
The International Institute for Sustainability team was present at the VII World Conference on Restoration held in Foz do Iguaçu between August 27 and September 1, 2017
15.08.17
Researcher at the International Institute for Sustainability (IIS) received Luis F. Bacardi Award for Advances in Tropical Conservation of 2017
10.08.17
IIS and partners publish correspondence “Hard times for the Brazilian environment” in Nature Ecology & Evolution
24.04.17
IIS publishes article “Willingness to Adopt Biochar in Agriculture: The Producer’s Perspective” in Sustainability journal (volume 9)
29.03.17
Specialist in industrial scale clean energy production in Poland came to Rio de Janeiro to talk about his experience
24.03.17
Policies mix can avoid extinctions of historic proportions projected for the Cerrado, shows a study coordinated by Brazilians, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution
07.03.17
Lack of labour is pointed as the main barrier for the adoption of good agricultural practices in Brazil – A study with 250 producers from Mato Grosso was conducted by the IIS
22.02.17
The Pact for the Atlantic Forest Restoration (Pacto in portuguese) reorganizes itself to overcome difficulties and achieve the restoration goals launched in 2009
14.02.17
The National Plan for Native Vegetation Recovery (PLANAVEG), of which IIS was one of the idealizers, became the federal decree “National Policy for Native Vegetation Recovery (PROVEG)”
22.11.16
IIS publishes two articles in the special volume on natural regeneration of Biotropica journal (volume 48, issue 6)
09.03.16
Brazilian and foreigner scientists launches a book debating sustainability indicators efficiency on March the 10th in Rio de Janeiro
20.08.15
For the strengthening of natural regeneration in forest restoration and landscapes policies
04.05.15
New study shows that forest restoration cana chieve large scale without competing with agriculture
23.07.14
Study shows that Brazil can have the greatest agricultural expansion in the world with zero deforestation
26.06.14
Study about carbon emissions by selective deforestation in Amazonia has the participation of IIS researcher
21.05.14
IIS article analyzes the impacts of projects with sustainability indicators in developing countries
21.05.14