COP15 final reflections from a student: richer countries came with much bigger delegations

The UN biodiversity summit (COP15) ended this week with the impressive adoption of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) – you can read about the four goals and 23 targets agreed to in this framework in this publication. While the framework is not legally binding, it sets the tone for…

Pollinators – showing us a new way to protect and manage biodiversity?

12 April 2019 | Category: describe your ideal job essay

The European Environment Agency (EEA) recently asked us to investigate the issue of ‘Policy streamlining for biodiversity and ecosystem services’. Policy streamlining in this case, is the process of bringing together different policy measures in order to achieve improved delivery of policy objectives. For example: how could different, occasionally conflicting…

100 years of Wageningen University – biodiversity and agriculture on (a positive) collision course

Hawthorn in a grass pasture – ideal food for winter birds
13 September 2018 | Category: describe your ideal job essay

On the 3th of September, Wageningen University’s 100th academic year was formally opened by the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Phil Hogan the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development and our President Louise Fresco. The distinguished guests were there to mark the special anniversary: 100 years ago we ‘became…