DEFEND-BIO

Biosphere Defenders Leveraging Legal and Governance Tools For Just Sustainability Transformation

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A research project aiming to support sustainability transformations for present and future generations to thrive. Leveraging interdisciplinary expertise in law, politics, development, geography, and trade, the project uncovers opportunities and challenges within legislative and policy frameworks.

Centred on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and their interactions with Europe, DEFEND-BIO contributes to the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), international human rights treaties and the Escazú Agreement in an interconnected world.

OUR RESEARCH FIELDS

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International and Regional Law

Transnational European Economic Law

Litigation in Latin American and the Caribbean Countries

Living Law

Citizen Data

Interconnected areas: Collective work

DEFEND-BIO not only unites regions and areas of research but makes the connections work together with the objective to

Contribute to the implementation of the CBD, human rights treaties, and the Escazú Agreement in an interconnected world.

Empower defenders with legal tools and strategies to advance environmental human rights, particularly in the context of the Escazú Agreement and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

Enable environments for defenders to scale out locally-led nature-based solutions (NBS) and scale-up impact at regional and global levels to support environmental democracy, human rights and sustainability transformations.