In the context of the COP15 summit on biodiversity that took place in Montreal, Canada, by the end of 2022, MIGUEL BASTOS ARAUJO was interviewed by the newspaper Público. The full recorded interview can be heard in a podcast below (in Portuguese). . . . [ Read More ]
New project: NaturaConnect
The European Biodiversity Strategy 2030 commits Union Member States to legally protect a minimum of 30% of the European Union’s land and sea area and to strictly protect at least a third of these protected areas. European Members States are also committed to effectively manage conservation areas and to restore Europe’s natural capital, thus taking a leading role in the Post-2020 Convention on . . . [ Read More ]
Biodiversity 2030: New Agenda for Conservation under Climate Change
Publicado o estudo "Biodiversidade 2030: Nova Agenda para a Conservação em Contexto de Alterações Climáticas", encomendado pelo Ministério do Ambiente e Ação Climática e coordenado por Miguel Bastos Araújo. Participam ainda, como coordenadores setoriais, Sara Antunes, Emanuel Gonçalves, Rosário Oliveira, Sofia Santos e Isabel Sousa Pinto. O trabalho beneficiou ainda da colaboração empenhada de 14 . . . [ Read More ]
BCSD Key note address
It was a true pleasure to talk to entrepreneurs and business people at the annual meting of the Business Council for Sustainable Development on the limits of the economy in the finite planet and discuss new ways to address the problem of sustainability, with focus to the natural capital and to biodiversity in a changing world. . . . [ Read More ]
Miguel B. Araujo Lab – Resumo de investigação passada e reflexão sobre investigação futura
Quando um leigo me pergunta sobre o objeto da minha investigação, nem sempre é fácil de explicar numa frase. Na verdade, quem trabalha em biodiversidade trabalha com sistemas complexos. Logo, para entender estes sistemas, para os modelar, para projetar dinâmicas futuras, são diversas as ramificações por onde se estende a investigação. Consciente da dificuldade em sintetizar a diversidade muitos . . . [ Read More ]
The future of coastlands in the era of mega hurricanes
News piece in the prestigious El Pais about the PARIBAS-Foundation-funded CORESCAM project, led by Miguel Araújo, Rosa Roman-Cuesta and Ana Rey. The article in Spanish can be read here. . . . [ Read More ]
What will 2021 bring for biodiversity and conservation?
Recent interview to the magazine WILDER about the prospects that 2021 will bring to biodiversity and conservation. In Portuguese, can be read here. . . . [ Read More ]
Presentation of CORESCAM project
CORESCAM: Studying Coastal Biodiversity Resilience to Increasing Extreme Events in Central America. A project co-led by Rosa Román Cuesta (CIFOR), Ana Rey and Miguel Bastos Araújo (both from MNCN-CSIC). Synthesis: Central America (Mesoamerica+Caribbean) has been dubbed the miner’s canary of climate change due to the marked increase in extreme events and their impacts over humans and . . . [ Read More ]
Opening of the EU Green Week
The 19th of October witnessed the Opening of the European Green Week, this year under scientific curation by Miguel B. Araújo and taking place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Despite the pandemic situation the event went well with a at least a good hundred of people present in the large auditorium of the Foundation and many more attending online. The . . . [ Read More ]
Miguel B. Araújo leads group to support Ministry of Environment
Miguel Bastos Araújo was charged by the Minister for the Environment and Climatic Action with the mission of leading a group of 5 scientists that will prepare strategic policy biodiversity documents to support the Portuguese Government through the EU Council Presidency between January and June 2021, the Portuguese position in the COP15 on biodiversity, and the Portuguese internal strategy . . . [ Read More ]