Are you a teacher looking for off-the-peg biodiversity lessons and activities for your students? Or a policymaker seeking to engage harder-to-reach communities around issues of biodiversity and inclusion? Or perhaps you are a sustainability ambassador at work, longing to interweave biodiversity into your business and the mindsets of your colleagues. Or do you represent anNGO? You know all about biodiversity, but need some methods to engage your audience? Or are [...]

How can we move beyond well-worn communication panels, alarming statistics, and broad statements? The PLANET4B project addresses this challenge, and co-created place-based experiments and examined sector-based examples that reveal leverage points and enabling conditions for transformative change at the individual, community, and institutional levels. The document briefly summarizes the comprehensive analysis of the eleven transformative change stories based on the project's case studies.    

The IPBES Transformative Change Assessment (2024) makes clear, fundamental and systemic change is essential to reverse current trends of biodiversity crisis. It calls for a rethinking of how societies value and relate to the natural world, recognising that well-being, justice and care for the planet are interconnected dimensions of sustainable prosperity. PLANET4B addresses these implementation challenges through an integrated focus on plural values, behavioural change, intersectionality, leverage points and transformational change. [...]

PLANET4B recognises the critical role of policy and business actors as agents of change in reducing biodiversity loss and the importance of using collaborative methods to jointly identify solutions for reducing biodiversity loss. In this regard, the project hosted six workshops with representatives from research, policy and business to discuss, develop and validate a series of transformative pathways and transformative methods for improving the prioritisation of biodiversity in a range [...]

This Deliverable is useful for policymakers and business actors who want to better understand how PLANET4B’s research can improve the prioritisation of biodiversity in policy and business processes. The findings in this Deliverable will also be useful to other Horizon Europe-funded projects involved in researching solutions for integrating biodiversity into policy and business processes.

Central to PLANET4B’s approach has been the recognition that transformation is not the responsibility of one sector or actor alone. It requires the active participation of diverse enabling players – including civil society organisations, policymakers and businesses – who shape decisions, practices and priorities across scales. To support these enabling players, PLANET4B has developed three audience-specific guidelines, each tailored to the distinct roles, capacities and contexts of civil society, policy [...]