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Public authorities for transformative change: integration principle in public funding
Although science widely supports moving towards transformative change through integrating biodiversity into decision-making, and arguing for the essential role of public authorities, it falls short on suggesting specific means to that end. This article considers the EU’s approach to fostering the gr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9999069/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37359476 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02542-w |
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description | Although science widely supports moving towards transformative change through integrating biodiversity into decision-making, and arguing for the essential role of public authorities, it falls short on suggesting specific means to that end. This article considers the EU’s approach to fostering the green transition as part of its post-pandemic recovery while exploring how the integration of biodiversity considerations could be integrated into decision-making. The rationale and implementation of the EU’s do no harm principle is examined, which functioned as a condition for public funds. The analysis shows the mentioned EU policy innovation has a very limited impact. The role of do no harm has been limited to validating, rather than initiating policy measures. It has failed to influence the design of measures such that they would benefit biodiversity and not encouraged synergies between the climate and biodiversity goals. Based on the experience with do no harm as well as the more focussed regulatory action directed at the goal of climate neutrality, the article lists key steps for fostering biodiversity integration in policy planning and policy implementation. These steps encompass substantive and procedural approaches and aim for deliberation, target-setting, tracking, verification and screening. There is considerable scope for robust regulation to play a role in support of the biodiversity goals alongside transformative bottom-up initiatives. |
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spelling | pubmed-99990692023-03-10 Public authorities for transformative change: integration principle in public funding Penca, Jerneja Biodivers Conserv Original Research Although science widely supports moving towards transformative change through integrating biodiversity into decision-making, and arguing for the essential role of public authorities, it falls short on suggesting specific means to that end. This article considers the EU’s approach to fostering the green transition as part of its post-pandemic recovery while exploring how the integration of biodiversity considerations could be integrated into decision-making. The rationale and implementation of the EU’s do no harm principle is examined, which functioned as a condition for public funds. The analysis shows the mentioned EU policy innovation has a very limited impact. The role of do no harm has been limited to validating, rather than initiating policy measures. It has failed to influence the design of measures such that they would benefit biodiversity and not encouraged synergies between the climate and biodiversity goals. Based on the experience with do no harm as well as the more focussed regulatory action directed at the goal of climate neutrality, the article lists key steps for fostering biodiversity integration in policy planning and policy implementation. These steps encompass substantive and procedural approaches and aim for deliberation, target-setting, tracking, verification and screening. There is considerable scope for robust regulation to play a role in support of the biodiversity goals alongside transformative bottom-up initiatives. Springer Netherlands 2023-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9999069/ /pubmed/37359476 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02542-w Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Research Penca, Jerneja Public authorities for transformative change: integration principle in public funding |
title | Public authorities for transformative change: integration principle in public funding |
title_full | Public authorities for transformative change: integration principle in public funding |
title_fullStr | Public authorities for transformative change: integration principle in public funding |
title_full_unstemmed | Public authorities for transformative change: integration principle in public funding |
title_short | Public authorities for transformative change: integration principle in public funding |
title_sort | public authorities for transformative change: integration principle in public funding |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9999069/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37359476 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02542-w |
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