Presentations
International Agreements on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Public Participation - an Introduction
29 March 2010, Ramallah - Christiane Gerstetter
Christiane Gerstetter, Fellow Ecologic Legal, provided an introduction to various international agreements to a Palestinian audience during a workshop in Ramallah on 29-30 March 2010. The workshop was convened by the Environmental Quality Authority of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). Its aim was to raise awareness among Palestinians about international environmental agreements. Read more ...
DeutschThe Cost of Policy Inaction (COPI) on Biodiversity
5 November 2009, Frankfurt - Holger Gerdes
On 5 November 2009, the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) in Frankfurt/Main hosted a workshop focusing on “Opportunities and limits of the ecosystem services concept.” Holger Gerdes, Fellow at the Ecologic Institute, gave a presentation on the application of the ecosystem services concept in policy consultancy. Read more ...
The International Discussion in the Framework of the UN Conventions on Climate Protection and Biological Diversity
7 May 2007, Berlin - R. Andreas Kraemer
The United Nations has dedicated the annual International Day of Biological Diversity on 22 May 2007 to "Biological Diversity and Climate Change", highlighting both the interlinkages between the two issues and the interaction between the relevant international or multilateral conventions. On 7 May 2007, the joint CDU and CSU party in the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag) held an Expert Meeting to review the state of the debate and explore policy options and needs. Ecologic contributed a presentation focussing on the international regimes on biological diversity and climate change. Read more ...
The importance of landscape issues in public policies
5 September 2006, Berlin - Rainer Müssner
The Free University of Berlin organised a conference on behalf of The Permanent European conference for the study of the rural landscape (PECSRL) on 4-9 September 2006, focusing on the theme: European rural future: Landscape as an Interface. Rainer Müssner from Ecologic gave a presentation about the importance of landscape issues in public policies. This presentation focused on the following key questions: Is "landscape" a priority issue at the national / European policy agenda?, do we have a coherent "landscape policy"? and what can be done to increase political "weight" of landscape issues? Read more ...
Transboundary landscape management - learning from the water sector
4 September 2006, Berlin - Rainer Müssner
There are obvious successes in Transboundary Water Management. How can the Landscape sector profit from these experiences, considering there exists an insufficient level of co-operation between states? Rainer Müssner in collaboration with Eduard Interwies gave a presentation focusing on these issues at the 22nd conference of The Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape. Read more ...
The Use of Market Incentives to preserve Biodiversity
25 April 2006, Brussels - Ingo Bräuer
On invitation of DG Economic and Financial Affairs and DG Environment, Ingo Bräuer, Fellow at Ecologic, gave a presentation on the use of Market Based Instruments in the field of nature conservation. The focus of the presentation, held at the ENVECO 21 meeting on 25 April 2006, was an analysis about success or failure of these instruments and their potential for further use in the future. Read more ...
Valuing Ecosystem Services for Water Framework Directive Implementation?
29 September 2005, Isle of Vilm - Nicole Kranz
During an international capacity-building workshop for participants from Central and Eastern Europe which was convened from 29 September to 1 October 2005, Nicole Kranz discussed the application of a valuation of ecosystem services for the implementation of the requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). Read more ...
How to improve integrative planning and land use instruments in cultural landscapes
14. September 2005, Northampton - Rainer Müssner
Recent reports on Europe’s biological resources prove that the loss of biodiversity has not yet been halted despite efforts in this field. One reason for this is that the instruments used to address conservation issues do not always serve their purpose. The presentation given by Rainer Müssner at the International Association of Landscape Ecologists meeting in Northampton (IALE-UK) therefore dealt with procedural aspects of how to improve landscape planning (LP) and the codes of good farming practice (GFP). Read more ...
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