Dario Piselli

@dariopiselli

About/Bio

Dario Piselli is an Expert in Environment, Health, and Well-Being at the European Environment Agency (EEA) in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has previously held research positions at the Global Health Centre (2016-2018) and at the Centre for International Environmental Studies (2018-2020) of the Graduate Institute of Geneva, where he remains an affiliated researcher. Before joining the EEA, Dario also worked as an independent consultant on projects including the Lancet & Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030, the UN75 Initiative, and the Governing Pandemics Initiative. From 2012 to 2019, he collaborated with the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network in a variety of roles, and since 2017 he has twice been a co-recipient of Erasmus+ grants for Jean Monnet modules relating to international and European environmental law issues. He is presently a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management. Dario holds a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute of Geneva and is also a graduate of the University of Siena (JD, cum laude) and the London School of Economics (MSc in Environment and Development). His main areas of expertise include international and European biodiversity law, global health governance, and science and technology-policy interfaces in health and environment.

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Goal-setting in an era of mass extinction: a planetary boundary for biosphere integrity in international biodiversity law? (Part II)

The potential role of the planetary boundary for biosphere integrity The planetary boundary framework was originally developed to identify the key global processes that are essential for regulating the functioning of the Earth System and create what are effectively safe ‘buffer zones’ that might prevent humanity from crossing dangerous biophysical thresholds or tipping points. In its current…

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Goal-setting in an era of mass extinction: a planetary boundary for biosphere integrity in international biodiversity law? (Part I)

Introduction The recent publication of the UN Secretary-General’s Report on ‘Gaps in International Environmental Law’ comes at a particularly critical juncture for the protection of the world’s biodiversity. The Report was released just days after the conclusion of the 14thConference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which has expressed deep concern about countries’…

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