AUTHORS: IEEP-Alterra-Ecologic-PBL-UNEP-WCMC

This report provides the full results of the European Commission (DG Environment) contracted study on “Scenarios and models for exploring future trends of biodiversity and ecosystem services changes”. The overall purpose of the study was to clarify which models and scenarios are being used and can be used to explore the developments of biodiversity and ecosystems in light of different assumptions of drivers and policies. This will be of general use for policy analysis and reflection, and it will also be of specific use for the second phase of the initiative on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB). TEEB aims to build future visions and projections taking into account alternative policies and assess their potential impacts on ecosystem services and the cost of their loss, both in biophysical and in monetary terms.