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The divide between citizens and civil society, from public authorities and lawmakers, and businesses in tackling the challenge of biodiversity monitoring and compliance for biodiversity conservation requires building bridges between them to shape an inclusive European science-for-policy landscape

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The challenge of rapid biodiversity loss provides learning opportunities to unlock solutions to learn from science policy society interactions, how different views of the problem and solution landscape exist from the periphery to the center of biodiversity knowledge and decision making. Finding a common language to communicate and building (not expecting) trust is critical. Lack of trust in science is not a problem to be fixed but a symptom of the disconnect between society from the science for policy ecosystem, and in other systems. There is no one-size-fits-all all, and time and resources are required to build bridges.

How to ensure science for policy can deliver and have an impact? In the four-year ENFORCE projects, we are looking at what citizen science can do for policy and what policy can do for science to address national interests and global sustainable development goals. Forward-looking science–policy–action interfaces for tackling nexus challenges across scales, sectors, and actors

Getting out of our echo chambers and learn to talk to people with whom we do not agree, creating safe places for intentional dialogues, may be uncomfortable and can be risky. Building networks of trust is urgent in the current environment of polarisation and fear-based narratives. Evisights' evidence-to-insights process to empower citizen science networks to work with national government and EU-level evidence-informed policy making, and evidence-enabled law enforcement can ensure environmental management, monitoring, and compliance integrates citizen science ensuring that participatory processes become integral to compliance outcomes, for enhancing legitimacy, increasing transparency, and ensuring accountability.