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Leverage science-based tools, foster collaboration across sectors, build local capacity, and promote global and regional cooperation.
In the PRC, the successful restoration of the Ma’anshan and Zhihui mining pits showcases innovative business models.
Valuation approaches include cost-based, revealed preference, stated preference, and benefit transfer.
The minimum wage must ensure broad coverage, reflect workers' needs, align with economic conditions, and focus on low-income earners.
Strategies include enhancing water resource management, strengthening biodiversity conservation, and promoting sustainable ecotourism.
Synergizing the efforts of multiple stakeholders to support digitalization will facilitate circular plastic economy transition in the PRC.
Efforts focused on revegetation, grazing ban, hydrological connection, and community engagement to restore the wetland ecosystems, boost carbon sequestration, and improve livelihood.
The EU’s regulation to reduce tropical deforestation caused by agriculture will be crucial, but it may impose severe short-term costs on smallholders.
The vulture collapse in South Asia due to diclofenac has caused health, economic, and cultural issues, driving urgent conservation efforts and the exploration of new biodiversity credit mechanisms.
Accurate baseline data can guide policy reforms that leverage the informal recycling sector for cost-effective urban waste management.