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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Madam, Sir,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">BiodivERsA is pleased to share with you the publication of a new policy brief entitled “</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1"><a href="http://www.biodiversa.org/1566/download"><span style="color:#954F72">Policy
 tools to manage synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services</span></a></span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">”, based on the combined results of the </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#0563C1"><a href="http://www.biodiversa.org/88"><span style="color:#954F72">CONNECT</span></a></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;text-decoration:none">,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#0563C1"><a href="http://www.biodiversa.org/523"><span style="color:#954F72">REGARDS</span></a></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;text-decoration:none">,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#0563C1"><a href="http://www.biodiversa.org/1084"><span style="color:#954F72">TALE</span></a></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;text-decoration:none">and</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#0563C1"><a href="http://www.biodiversa.org/132"><span style="color:#954F72">VITAL</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> projects.
 This 4-page brief introduces the notion of trade-offs and synergies in the delivery of ecosystem services, and presents policy-makers with science-based tools that help optimize their management. The projects it builds on exemplify the use of optimization
 and participatory tools to quantify synergies and trade-offs between multiple ecosystem services, providing comprehensive evaluations of demand and policy impacts on these services. They further demonstrate how the combination of participative ecosystem services
 scenarios with optimization tools allows to identify the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">most sustainable and desirable policy responses and management options for the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#0563C1"><a href="http://www.biodiversa.org/1566/download"><span style="color:#954F72">Download</span></a></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#0563C1"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB">the
 BiodivERsA Policy Brief "<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">Policy tools to manage synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB">"</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;margin-bottom:15.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#0563C1"><a href="http://www.biodiversa.org/1567/download" title="IAS Log sheet"><span style="color:#954F72">Download</span></a></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#0563C1"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:windowtext">information
 sheet about competences consulted and work procedure for this briefing</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:15.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#0563C1"><a href="http://www.biodiversa.org/501"><span style="color:#954F72">Find out</span></a></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB">about
 other BiodivERsA policy briefs</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#333333">Please feel free to further distribute this brief. For queries, please contact Frederic Lemaître, BiodivERsA science-policy interfacing officer (</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#0563C1"><a href="mailto:frederic.lemaitre@fondationbiodiversite.fr"><span style="color:#954F72">frederic.lemaitre@fondationbiodiversite.fr</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#333333">).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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