Biodiversity

Articles

CBD COP16: Wins and losses for biodiversity and peoples, unfinished business on implementation

Published: 19 November 2024

The sixteenth UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, faced significant challenges and ran overtime due to disagreements between developing and developed countries. A resumed meeting will be required to address these unfinished issues.

By Mirna Inés Fernández

Eine Gruppe jubelnder Menschen in einem Saal, einige mit erhobenen Fäusten. Sie lachen und wirken freudig vereint

After the COP16 Biodiversity Conference in Colombia: What remains and what comes next

Published: 14 November 2024

Commentary

The UN Conference on Biological Diversity (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, ended in early November with important resolutions, but no agreement on the key issue of financing biodiversity conservation.

By Evelyn Hartig

Rede von Susana Muhamad, kolumbianische Umweltministerin, bei der Eröffnung der 16. UN-Biodiversitätskonferenz (COP16) in Cali, Kolumbien, vor einer großen Leinwand mit Konferenzdetails sowie den Flaggen Kolumbiens und der UN.

Dossiers

Photo: A person holding a dried plant and carefully extracting onion seeds into their palm. Crops, possibly cabbage, are visible in the background.

Agroecology: Our Roots of Change

Published: 20 January 2025

Dossier

Agroecology is increasingly recognized as a powerful response to today’s interlinked crises - environmental degradation, climate change, and deepening social inequalities. This dossier explores how agroecology redefines food systems and promotes people’s agency.

Biodiversity

Published: 24 November 2015

Dossier

Synthetic Biology describes a set of new genetic techniques for designing and engineering lifeforms for industrial purposes. So far, there is neither a public debate worth mentioning nor any regulation by law. Our dossier looks at the risks Synthetic Biology poses for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.

Publications

Peatland Atlas 2023

Published: 9 September 2025

Atlas

Der Mooratlas beleuchtet die Folgen der Zerstörung dieser einzigartigen Lebensräume und zeigt die Chancen nasser Moore und ihrer Nutzung für die Gesellschaft auf, um alle Akteur*innen zum Handeln zu ermutigen – „Moor muss nass“!

Resilient Agriculture on the African Continent: The Proof will be in the Soil

Published: 6 May 2024

E-Paper

Africa must find pathways to provide a better life for its people, including access to healthy and sustainably produced food. This policy paper takes a closer look at the role of synthetic fertilizers in African food systems.

Sharing life. The Ecopolitics of Reciprocity

Published: 14 April 2021

Book/E-Book

Evolving around the main essay “Sharing life. The Ecopolitics of Reciprocity”, all contributions to this assemblage reflect a common understanding that ecology and biodiversity needs to be reclaimed – and constantly generated – as a process of lived and living realities in a system of reciprocal relationships.