Biodiversity Revisited: Research and action agenda for sustaining diverse and just futures for life on Earth

Life on Earth is facing severe challenges. Human action is leading to a deterioration in natural resources and ecosystems, and widespread declines in populations of wild species. This presents an existential threat to humanity by undermining the capacity of biodiversity to support human well-being. The Biodiversity Revisited research and action agenda calls for new ways of thinking and acting to address the urgent, complex, and interconnected challenges facing humanity. Recognising the severe degradation in the diversity of life on Earth that sustains humanity, this agenda seeks to catch a changing tide in the biodiversity research community focussed on a more integrated and transformative approach to research and action. Biodiversity Revisited is a collaborative, thought leadership process to co-produce a new, integrated five-year research agenda to effectively sustain life on Earth. The collaborative process seeks to raise new awareness and thinking about biodiversity, from concept through measurement to implementation, as well as looking critically at the narratives, science and systems that underpin it.

Biodiversity Revisited is an initiative of the Luc Hoffmann Institute, in collaboration with WWF, Future Earth, ETH Zürich Department of Environmental Systems Science, University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute, Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research at University College London and exists thanks to generous funding from the NOMIS Foundation, the MAVA Foundation and WWF International. https://luchoffmanninstitute.org/biodiversity-revisited/