The BIO-TRADE project analyses how the EU and European countries can protect biodiversity outside Europe in a socially inclusive way through regulating trade relations, supply chains, and biodiversity no net loss policies. Our presumption is that by regulating European business relations, European law can extend its positive biodiversity impacts anywhere in the world, having a major role in reaching the goals of international environmental and human rights agreements. European law refers to EU law, EU Member States' laws, and EFTA countries' laws. Legislators must also acknowledge the role of transnational private regulation. Our overarching research question is: How can the EU and European countries regulate their impacts on biodiversity abroad in order to contribute to positive social-ecological outcomes through effective, fair and coherent law and policy?

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