Science for Evidence-based and sustainable decisions about Natural capital

生物多样性和健康的生态系统及其提供的服务的重要性日益得到承认。欧盟启动了2020和2030年生物多样性战略、IPBES、IPCC和生物多样性公约等政策倡议，以解决生物多样性、自然资本和相关价值问题。研究创造了一个知识库，以更好地理解作为生态系统服务（ES）提供基础的自然-人类相互作用。相关行动的主要目标是提供可靠的信息，以支持到2030年欧盟生态系统的保护、恢复和可持续以及气候中性利用。MAES为不同空间尺度的综合评估提供了概念、方法和数据基础，包括欧盟范围内的评估（2020年）和欧盟成员国的评估。不同生态系统类型（包括保护区和海洋地区）的知识和数据越来越多。下一步是整合不同的MAES组成部分（生态系统映射、条件、ES、会计），并在决策中采用ES。主要挑战包括证明bd -生态系统条件- es关系，并将其与欧盟政策联系起来。该联盟汇集了来自所有欧盟成员国、联系国和欧盟海外地区的专家以及来自各种公共和私营部门的利益相关者。该联盟的专业知识包括来自相关行动（开放性、ESMERALDA、MAIA、MAES、ESP、IPBES、BD Partnership）的领先专家（生态学家、经济学家、社会科学家），他们研究生态系统科学、生态系统会计以及科学-政策-商业接口。因此，项目将成功地解决呼叫的挑战，并提供适用的工具和模型以及如何使用它们的指导。该项目将为整个欧洲以证据为基础的统一决策提供实际案例，实现革命性的变革，以阻止BD的下降，并确保基本的es可持续供应和使用。

The importance of biodiversity (BD) and healthy ecosystems and the services they deliver has increasingly been acknowledged. Policy initiatives, such as the EU BD Strategies 2020 and 2030, IPBES, IPCC and CBD were launched to address BD, natural capital and related values. Research has created a knowledge base to better understand nature-human interactions that are at the base of ecosystem services (ES) delivery. The key aim of related actions is to provide robust information that can be harnessed to support protection, restoration and sustainable as well as climate-neutral use of ecosystems in the EU by 2030. MAES has provided the conceptual, methodological and data base for comprehensive assessments on different spatial scales, including the EU-wide assessment (2020) and assessments in EU member states. Knowledge and data for different ecosystem types (including protected and marine areas) are increasingly available. The next step is to integrate the different MAES components (ecosystem mapping, condition, ES, accounting) and to enable the uptake of ES in decision making. Key challenges include the proof of BD-ecosystem condition-ES relationships and to link them to EU policies. The consortium brings together experts from all EU member states, associated countries and EU overseas regions with stakeholders from various public and private sectors. The expertise in the consortium includes leading experts (ecologists, economists, social scientists) on ES science, ecosystem accounting and on science-policy-business interfaces from related actions (OpenNESS, ESMERALDA, MAIA, MAES, ESP, IPBES, BD Partnership). Therefore, the project will successfully address the call's challenges and provide applicable tools and models together with guidance how to use them. The project will deliver real cases for an evidence-, ES-based and harmonised decision making across Europe, enabling transformative change to halt BD decline and to secure essential ES-sustainable supply and use.