BIONEXT will develop knowledge, tools, and guidance for mainstreaming biodiversity into policy-making and provide concrete options on how to initiate, accelerate and upscale biodiversity-friendly and just transformative change in society. It will integrate nature positive scenarios and pathways in a co-production process with core stakeholders, and develop a science-based modelling on interlinkages between biodiversity, water, food, energy, transport, climate, and health (the Nexus Modelling Framework).
BIONEXT compiles a database which contains real life cases of transformative change illustrating options to have biodiversity recovery in the focus of societal change and solutions. BIONEXT will involve various stakeholders enabling them to explore the concept of just transformative change. Plausible futures and desirable, nature-positive visions and multiple transition pathways will be co-created in workshops and focus groups. Finally, BIONEXT Pathways App, a novel decision support tool, allowing users to explore transformational building blocks, formulating policies, and implementation pathways on how to facilitate just transformative change which enables recovery of biodiversity. The results will contribute to science brokerage, capacity building and networking to IPBES, EU policymakers, and civil society.