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Global to local policy impact
Convention on biological diversity
iDiv recommendations for the post-2020 agenda
IPBES
iDiv researchers active in assessments and working groups
CAP Fitness Check
iDiv researcher suggest to improve the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU
Rewilding the EU
Promoting and shaping the EU restoration agenda through mobilisation of rewilding principles
iDiv researchers advise the European Commission regarding the EU Biodiversity Strategy
identifies data needs for policy and targets in alignement with the new European Green Deal.
Science and society halting biodiversity loss - a framework for Germany
White Paper on the Research initiative for the Conservation of Biodiversity of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
White paper National Monitoring Centre
iDiv leads the national assessment "Faktencheck Artenvielfalt" (Fact Check Biodiversity)
Industry collaborations towards sustainable crop production
Lebendige Luppe,
Wilde Mulde
Restoring local floodplain forests in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt
Monitoring of small streams with citizen scientists
iDiv researchers members in advisory board of the Hainich National park , and Harz National park
Events and people
iDiv Forum event „Die globale Biodiversitätsagenda und die Europäische Biodiversitätsstrategie - Chancen und Herausforderungen für Mitteldeutschland“
How can biodiversity in Central Germany be better protected in the future? And how can research contribute to this? These questions were discussed by more than 120 representatives from biodiversity research and - practice during a virtual meeting hosted by iDiv on January 11, 2021.
"The world is in a biodiversity crisis," said Professor Walter Rosenthal, President of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Chairman of the iDiv Board of Trustees, in his welcoming address. "To reverse the negative trends and halt species extinction, we need integrative biodiversity research, which can provide the scientific basis for a sustainable approach to biodiversity."
The importance of biodiversity was emphasized by the environment ministers of the states of Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia. "Species protection - like climate protection - is actually human protection," said Thuringia's Environment Minister Anja Siegesmund. However, biodiversity protection can only succeed if many actors act together, as Saxony's Environment Minister Wolfram Günther emphasized. "We need coordinated interaction of many individual measures and actors." This is true for the renaturation of the Leipzig floodplain forest as well as to the cross-border preservation of the “Grüne Band”, which enjoys special protection in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt as a National Natural Monument. The principle of collaboration also guides the model project "Kollektiver Naturschutz in der Landwirtschaft " presented by Professor Claudia Dalbert, Environment Minister for Saxony-Anhalt, which promotes dialogue between nature conservation and agriculture and supports farmers in implementing biodiversity-friendly measures.
The exchange and increased networking between biodiversity research and representatives of nature conservation authorities and organizations were also the main goals of the discussion rounds that followed the presentations. The participants noted that communication and cooperation of broad expertise from science, authorities and associations are important prerequisites for successful biodiversity protection and took away various concrete ideas for future cooperation from the event.
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Science-policy publications

Policy brief: Freshwater insects are recovering, while terrestrial insects show widespread declines
Link to press release
Reports, policy briefs and position papers on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU
White Paper on the Research initiative for the Conservation of Biodiversityof the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Science-Policy Committee
Chair

Prof Aletta Bonn
Head of Ecosystem Services Research Group
Committee members

Dr Volker Hahn
Head of Media and Communications

HyeJin Kim
Doctoral Researcher

Dr Hjalmar Kühl
Head of Sustainability and Complexity in Ape Habitat junior research group

Prof Martin Lindner
iDiv Member (MLU)

Dr Jasper Meya
PostDoc

Dr Laetitia Navarro
PostDoc, Former Executive Secretary (GEO BON)

Dr Guy Pe’er
Postdoc

Prof Henrique M Pereira
Head of Biodiversity Conservation Research Group

Prof Josef Settele
iDiv Member (UFZ)

Dr Marten Winter
Head of sDiv

Dr Roel van Klink
Postdoc

Prof Christian Wirth
iDiv Speaker

Prof Karsten Wesche
iDiv Member (SMNG)