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Friday, 3 October 2025
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Biodiversity loss and climate change are intricately linked, and it is widely acknowledged that action is needed to develop holistic, multifunctional solutions to both challenges. Nature-based solutions are a key way to support both climate mitigation and adaptation, and tackle other key...

Recent reports

Recent journals

  • This unique edition of environmental SCIENTIST explores an approach that the IES has long championed in the sector: interdisciplinarity. Defined here as a way of working across and beyond...

  • This issue explores how, and why, specific environmental indicators are chosen to communicate environmental tipping points, baselines and benchmarks – alongside examining the politics,...

  • This issue of environmental SCIENTIST turns to one of the most contentious and complex topics within the environmental sector: finance. The edition considers how we can harness finance to advance...

  • This issue of environmental SCIENTIST sheds light on the ways in which human health and the environment are inextricably linked. Articles explore the complexities of well-known issues such as PFAS...

  • This issue of the journal examines an idea that is gaining traction in environmental thinking in recent years: net gain.

    Approaching this topic from a range of different disciplines and...

IES policy documents

Outlines our approach to ED&I and the priorities for 2023-2026

Outlines how we collect, process and safeguard personal data and comply with data protection law.

Lays down the rules of professional conduct that all professional members need to abide by.

Who to contact

Bea Gilbert

Publications Lead

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