BIOTRAILS

Nexus framework for biodiversity-relevant transformative change

BIOTRAILS aims to generate knowledge and develop tools that will inspire and accelerate biodiversity-relevant transformative change in our society. BIOTRAILS will use Participatory Systems Dynamics Modelling to take into account the complex interrelations between the indirect drivers of change in four value chains of traded products (cocoa produced in Peru; forest-based cultural products created by indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon; fisheries and aquaculture products supplied by the Mediterranean basin and consumed within the Mediterranean countries; and gold mined in Ghana), and in an integrated manner alongside the climate and social justice agendas.

Based on this knowledge and tools, BIOTRAILS will bring together stakeholders across different stages of product/material global value chains to collaboratively design pathways that can lead to a sustainable future, proposing interventions in policy, urban consumption patterns and corporate policies.

At DRAXIS, we lead activities linked to the “Tools for Transformative Change” and within this framework we will develop a toolkit for incorporating biodiversity in ESG policies and a sustainable consumption game. DRAXIS will utilize the outputs of widely used databases on the projections of climate models in order to be assessed and further processed and a climate risk assessment will take place to identify the expected conditions. DRAXIS’ role is additionally to design and monitor the procedures and protocols necessary for handling legal and ethical issues during the project’s lifetime.