2025-06-112025-06-112023-11-24Vincent, C., Cristiano, A., Cuadros Casanova, I., Pacifici, M., Soria, C.D., Tedeschi, L.,...,Rondinini, C. (2023). The war in Ukraine is changing plausible future socioeconomic scenarios leading to an unexplored outlook for biodiversity. Conservation Science and Practice, 6 (9), e13056. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13056.2578-4854https://hdl.handle.net/11441/174215Shared socioeconomic pathways are a key tool in predicting biodiversity sce-narios and in the subsequent design of environmental policies. Here, we dis-cuss how recent policy changes to global trade routes, agriculture, and energyproduction in response to the war in Ukraine are impacting socioeconomicscenarios used to set and assess biodiversity targets. We also discuss how thedisruption to the global geopolitical landscape provides a window of opportu-nity for policy reform and the radical societal paradigm shift that is needed totackle the global biodiversity crisis. We call for the re-evaluation of biodiversitytargets with newly developed scenarios that reflect the changes made to pro-duction and consumption patterns. We also recommend establishing nationalbiodiversity working groups to screen proposed policies for their potential risksto the drivers of biodiversity change, since policy decisions made in responseto the war that seemingly are far removed from the environment can have last-ing impacts on nature.application/pdf8 p.engAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BiodiversityConflictDirect driverIndirect driverMultilateral environmental AgreementsStorylinesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess10.1111/csp2.13056