Welcome to the PLAN-B European Project
Tackling
noise and light pollution
for a Sustainable
Tomorrow
The Path Towards Addressing Adverse Impacts of Light and Noise Pollution on Terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Key outputs of PLAN-B
PLAN-B will create the enabling conditions to support and enhance activities planned in the EU biodiversity strategy and provide a new path towards meeting the EU and international biodiversity targets.
An Innovative Framework
A framework and supporting handbook for assessing light and noise pollution impacts to inform environmental decision-making
A Pollution Database
New Scientific Models
Innovative Pollution Solutions
Legal & Policy frameworks
Recommendations for enhancing legal and policy frameworks to reduce light and noise pollution impacts on terrestrial biodiversity
Communities of Practice (CoPs)
An alternative plan is required to achieve the the EU’s 2030 biodiversity target. PLAN-B takes an integrated, multidisciplinary and multi-actor approach to deliver better understanding and support reduction of light and noise pollution impacts on terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services.
The PLAN-B Project areas of work
Noise Pollution
Biodiversity
Light Pollution
Noise pollution
Biodiversity
Light pollution
Ecosystem services
Outreach & Impact
Combined effects
Prevention & Mitigation
The Path Towards Addressing Adverse Impacts of Light and Noise Pollution on Terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecosystems
The PLAN-B Project Blog
A Morning at ESAC Mapping Coordinates to ISS Photos
On October 3, ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villanueva de la Cañada (Spain) opened its doors with a programme guiding visitors alongside astronomers through the mysteries of black holes, exoplanets, and the edges of the universe. We brought something...
Listening to Wildlife: PLAN-B Presents Advances on Noise Pollution at Forum Acusticum 2026 (Graz)
Anthropogenic noise pollution is a growing threat to terrestrial ecosystems, but how do animals actually perceive sound? To address this critical question, researchers from the European PLAN-B project participated in Forum Acusticum 2026, held from September 8 to 11...
Shining a Light on Night Skies: PLAN-B Launches its Zaragoza Community of Practice with the Agrupación Astronómica Aragonesa
Bringing Science to the Streets of Zaragoza As part of PLAN-B's ongoing mission to understand and mitigate the impacts of artificial light at night (ALAN) on terrestrial biodiversity, our Spanish pilot in Zaragoza recently reached an exciting milestone. In close...
Mapping the Night: How Citizen Scientists Are Measuring Light Pollution in Zaragoza (Spain) with Portable Luxometers and Open-Red.es
Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) is increasingly recognized as a pervasive environmental stressor that fragments nocturnal habitats, disrupts species behaviors, and alters terrestrial ecosystems across Europe. To understand where light pollution transitions from urban...
Mapping Brazil’s Nightscapes: New Artificial Light at Night Module Launched on MapBiomas Platform
We are thrilled to share a major international milestone in the study and monitoring of light pollution. MapBiomas, a pioneering open and collaborative platform that transforms satellite data into long-term information on environmental and land-use changes, has...
PLAN-B, present in the CIE Webinar “Lighting the Way: Finding Balance Between Safety, Beauty, and the Night Sky”
Our colleagues Karolina Zielińska-Dąbkowska (Gdansk Tech) and Mike Wood (Saldford Univesrity) shared the first and preliminary outcomes of our project work in the event that CIE hosted, a special webinar on 15 May 2026 entitled “Lighting the Way: Finding Balance...
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Communities of Practice
A CoP is a group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.
Local communities -including public authorities, private companies generating light and noise pollution, local researchers and NGOs and citizens- will work together to monitorize the light and noise pollution in their local areas.
Local biodiversity monitoring programmes will be invited to work with these communities of Practice, share their knowledge and improve their practices related wit noise and light pollution.
Four regions will host these Communities of Practice: Germany, Poland, Brazil and Spain. Stay tuned if you want to take part in thes communities during the project.
Meet our consortium
4 years project
8 countries involved
12 consortium members
2.4M € of funding
