18 September 2023
TerraViva Sustainable Landscape Approach (TerraViva project)Impact Pathways: Rapid Evidence Review
In this Rapid Evidence Review, completed in 2025, Itad provides insights to inform the Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate’s Theory of Change refresh. The paper analyses recent evidence on biodiversity, climate resilience, and livelihoods, highlighting six impact pathways and emphasising the complex, context-dependent, and multi-stakeholder routes through which meaningful research impact emerges.
Annual Evidence Review
GCBC’s second Annual Evidence Review presents key research insights from the current cohort of funded projects between April 2023 and March 2024. It details the progress made by the GCBC programme towards its goals of preserving biodiversity, improving climate outcomes and protecting vulnerable communities, and highlights the direction for future evidence delivery.
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Evidence Synthesis Report
To reflect on the progress and achievements of the GCBC programme so far, the “Evidence Synthesis Report” was created to present the findings of the 15 projects funded by GCBC in its first year of operation and exhibits the positive impacts that safeguarding nature can have for climate and people.
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Research strategy
This Research Strategy sets out the vision through the theory of change and ambition for a systems approach (Section 2) for the GCBC programme to ensure that new scientific evidence, knowledge and partnerships developed support the poor directly or indirectly, with improved livelihoods and resilience to climate change, while sustainably managing and using biodiversity.
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Evidence collection
18 September 2023
Co-owning the One Food principle with the South African government (One Food project)
18 September 2023
Realising the potential of plants as nature-based solutions in African biodiversity hotspots: Supporting climate resilient, sustainable development (Kew TIPAs project)