Focus Group
Biodiversity – Land Use – Climate
The global decline in biodiversity ranks among the great challenges of our time. Besides agricultural landscape habitats, the condition of water bodies is particularly problematic and does not comply with European directives. In order to stop the further disappearance of animal and plant species, ambitious targets were agreed upon at the Global Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP 15) in Montreal. In Germany, for example, 30 per cent of the surface area is to be placed under effective protection. This has implications for current protected area concepts as well as for agricultural and forestry use. The focus group “Biodiversity – Land Use – Climate” provides science-based impulses in this thematic field.
Spokespersons of the Focus Group
- Katrin Böhning-Gaese ML, Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum, Frankfurt
- Antje Boetius ML, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven
Member of the Focus Group
- Nina Buchmann ML, ETH Zürich, Department Umweltsystemwissenschaften
- Thomas Potthast, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Internationales Zentrum für Ethik in den Wissenschaften
- Matin Qaim ML, Universität Bonn, Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung
- Katrin Rehdanz, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Institut für Umwelt-, Ressourcen- und Regionalökonomik
- Markus Reichstein, Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie, Abteilung Biogeochemische Integration, Jena
- Josef Settele, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung UFZ, Leipzig, Department Naturschutzforschung
- Klement Tockner ML, Senckenberg-Gesellschaft Frankfurt
- Cathrin Zengerling, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Umweltsozialwissenschaften und Geographie
ML = Member of the Leopoldina
