Creating leverage to enhance biodiversity outcomes of global biomass trade

Project Information

CLEVER

Grant agreement ID: 101060765

DOI

10.3030/101060765

Project closed

EC signature date 7 June 2022

Start date 1 September 2022

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 2 674 508,75

EU contribution

€ 2 674 508,00

Coordinated by

RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN
Germany

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (7)

Co-designed modeling framework for supply chain governance initiatives
Stakeholder map along supply chain for entire project

Stakeholder map along supply chain for entire project (annotated report and database)

Stakeholder consultations on project work plan, theory of change, and co-design

Stakeholder consultations on project work plan, theory of change, and co-design to ensure leverage points for biodiversity conservation and leakage considered throughout the project (short summary report early in project to be used in all other WPs)

Literature review and conceptual framework on mechanisms of how biomass trade affects biodiversity

Literature review and conceptual framework on mechanisms of how biomass trade affects biodiversity as input to D3.2

Theories of change and influence pathways

Theories of change and influence pathways of public and private regulations

Map of public policies and private governance mechanisms

Map of public policies and private governance mechanisms regulating biomass trade and biodiversity conservation

Non-food biomass production based on biophysical modeling

Representation of non-food biomass production based on biophysical modeling

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Dissemination, exploitation, and communication strategy II

Dissemination, exploitation, and communication strategy as well as reporting. The dissemination and exploitation plan is updated for the intermediate progress report and the final report. (Delivery months: M6, M18, M36)

Dissemination, exploitation, and communication strategy I

Dissemination, exploitation, and communication strategy as well as reporting. The dissemination and exploitation plan is updated for the intermediate progress report and the final report. (Delivery months: M6, M18, M36)

Data Management Plan (2)

Data management plan I

Data management plan to be updated on a regular basis

Data management plan II

Data management plan will be updated continuously. (Delivery months: M6, M18, M30)

Data sets, microdata, etc (4)

Biodiversity indicator database

Biodiversity indicator database for focus regions.

Biodiversity impact estimates

Biodiversity impact estimates and documentation for multi-species indicators ready for use in WP3

Biodiversity impact database including characterization factors

Biodiversity impact database including characterization factors and documentation ready for use in Module C

Database on biomass trade, production, demand, biodiversity proxies

Database on biomass trade, production, demand, biodiversity proxies for use in T3.2 and T3.5 and T3.6 including indicators from D2.2

Other (1)

Action Plan of Transformative Change Clustering

This plan describes scientific and thematic synergies with other projects and initiatives of interest and documents collaborative activities during the project life.

Publications

Book chapters (1)

The emergence of a new governance regime for forest and ecosystem risk commodities

Author(s): Berning, L.; Ziegert, R. F.; Cramm, M.; Sotirov, M.; Wunder, S.
Published in: In: The Elgar Companion to Supply Chains and the Sustainable Development Goals (edited by A. Dawson, A. Touboulic & L. Wu), 2026
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited

Peer reviewed articles (13)

Controlling the effects of sampling bias in biodiversity models

Author(s): Ubirajara Oliveira, Britaldo Soares-Filho, Felipe Nunes
Published in: Journal of Biogeography, 2024, ISSN 0305-0270
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14851

Limits to forests-based mitigation in integrated assessment modelling: global potentials and impacts under constraining factors

Author(s): Théo Rouhette, Neus Escobar, Xin Zhao, María José Sanz, and Dirk-Jan van de Ven
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, 2024, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad7748

Opening the “black box” of food safety policy implementation: The efficiency-enhancing role of a private meso-institution

Author(s): Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira, Bruno Varella Miranda, Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes, Gaetano Martino
Published in: Food Policy, Issue 121, 2023, ISSN 0306-9192
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102528

Implementation of the Brazilian Forest Code: a meso-institutional approach

Author(s): Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira, Paula Sarita Bigio Schnaider
Published in: Journal of Institutional Economics, Issue 21, 2025, ISSN 1744-1374
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/S1744137425100143

Assessing the performance of voluntary environmental agreements under high monitoring costs: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon

Author(s): Bruno Varella Miranda, Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira
Published in: Ecological Economics, Issue 214, 2023, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.ECOLECON.2023.107982

Blind spots in the EU’s Regulation on Deforestation-free products

Author(s): Oliveira, G.M., Ziegert, R.F., Pacheco, A. et al
Published in: Nature ecology & evolution, 2024, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02465-x

Hardening corporate accountability in commodity supplychains under the European Union Deforestation Regulation

Author(s): Laila Berning, Metodi Sotirov
Published in: Regulation and Governance, 2023, ISSN 1748-5983
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/rego.12540

Journal of Institutional Economics

Author(s): Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira, Bruno Varella Miranda
Published in: Journal of Institutional Economics, Issue 20, 2024, ISSN 1744-1374
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/S1744137424000122

Beyond Deforestation Reductions: Public Disclosure, Land-Use Change and Commodity Sourcing

Author(s): Yannic Damm, Elías Cisneros, Jan Börner
Published in: World Development, Issue 175, 2024, ISSN 0305-750X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/J.WORLDDEV.2023.106481

The coalitional politics of the European Union Regulation on deforestation-free products

Author(s): Laila Berning, Metodi Sotirov
Published in: Forest Policy and Economics, 2024, ISSN 1872-7050
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103102

Regulatory politics and hybrid governance: the case of Brazil’s Amazon Soy Moratorium

Author(s): Rafaella Ferraz Ziegert, Metodi Sotirov
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue 88, 2024, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.GLOENVCHA.2024.102916

Market standards and domestic growth in aquaculture: Heterogeneous effects of non- tariff measures across relevant aquaculture production contexts

Author(s): Uyen Tran, Yaghoob Jafari, Lisa Biber-Freudenberger, Stefan Partelow, Jan Börner
Published in: Aquaculture, Issue 611, 2025, ISSN 0044-8486
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.AQUACULTURE.2025.742976

Corporate zero deforestation commitments and company-internal organizational change

Author(s): Mathias Cramm, Theresa Frei, Aida Greenbury, Georg Winkel, Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Metodi Sotirov
Published in: Heliyon, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2405-8440
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30732

Other (2)

Mainstreaming Forest Conservation Finance: Integrating Positive Incentives with Due Diligence in Global Supply Chains

Author(s): null null, Lan Le, Martino Pelli, null null, Jindra Nuella Samson, null null, Henry Cornwell, null null, Christian Fisher, null null, Elisabeth Hoch, null null, Jan Börner, null null
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
DOI: 10.22617/BRF240585-2

Mind your language: Political signaling and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Author(s): Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira, Jorge Sellare, Elías Cisneros, Jan Börner
Published in: SRRN, 2023, ISSN 1556-5068
Publisher: SSRN

Conference proceedings (1)

Unraveling the Global Impact of the EU Deforestation Regulation through a Bayesian Poisson High Dimensional Fixed Effects Structural Gravity Model

Author(s): Gustavo Magalhaes de Oliveira
Published in: 2024
Publisher: ERSA 2024