D1.4 - Project Synthesis

The CLEVER Project has run for three years, during a time of major global changes. In this period, the European Union created and approved the Regulation on Deforestation-free products (EUDR), which is now close to implementation. This new regulation will affect many producer countries, including our case studies Brazil, Cameroon, and Gabon. As a result, it quickly became one of the main topics studied by the project, together with other forms of market governance and research on biodiversity and modeling. This synthesis report brings together the project’s main findings. It shares the new knowledge created toward biodiversity conservation, and outlines policy recommendations. The overall goal of the project was to find new leverage points for sustainable transformation using a holistic approach to measure biodiversity and the wider impacts of trade in non-food biomass value chains.