Sustainable management of global commons such as biodiversity, forests and the ocean (Global Commons)

Project lead

Dr. Heidi Wittmer

Employees
involved

Salina Spiering, Augustin Berghöfer, Johannes Förster, Karla E. Locher-Krause, Leonie Büttner, Julian Rode, Ulrike Tröger, Ruchira Chakrabarty, Marcela Munoz, Malte Neumann, Isabel Renner, David Kreuer, Dorothea Schwarzer, Yves Zinngrebe

Duration

2020 − 2022

Budget total

68,784 €

Funding agency

BMZ / GIZ

Project Partners

Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ (Germany) (coordinator)

Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)

Short summary

The aim of the project is to develop the design of transformative change for the protection of global commons, such as biodiversity and globally regulated ecosystems such as forests and marine, as multiple global assessments demand. For this purpose, UFZ summarizes the status of scientific knowledge on the basis of specific assessments and reports (IPBES, FAO, UN, Global Risk Report 2020, Dasgupta et al. 2020, among others), it analyzes the difference and works out recommendations and possible solutions. These recommendations will be illustrated through project examples based on guideline-supported experts interviews and discussed and further developed in expert workshops. As a final outcome, recommendations for international cooperation and development cooperation will be presented.The target group of the report is the scientific community and development cooperation, as well as the interested public.

Role of UFZ

Project results: As a main result the project team develops a report that answers the above-outlined key questions and delivers concrete recommendations for action for development cooperation and international cooperation on the protection of global commons, such as biodiversity, forests, as well as marine and coastal ecosystems. The development of an analytical framework for a successful transformative change is a further important result of the project. The report is going to be used in the Glasgow UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP), which is going to take place this year, to reinforce the positions of the BMZ.

Publications

Wittmer, H. Berghöfer, A., Büttner L., Chakrabarty, R., Förster, J., Khan, S., König, C., Krause, G., Kreuer, D., Locher-Krause, K., Moreno Soares, T., Muñoz Escobar, M., Neumann, M., Renner, I., Rode, J., Schniewind, I., Schwarzer, D., Tröger, U., Zinngrebe, Y., Spiering, S. (2021).
Transformative change for a sustainable management of global commons — biodiversity, forests and the ocean. Recommendations for international cooperation based on a review of global assessment reports and project experience. UFZ-Report 3/2021. DOI: 10.57699/7s83-7z35

Wittmer, H., Berghöfer, A., Büttner, L., Chakrabarty, R., Förster, J., Khan, S., König, C., Krause, G., Kreuer, D., Locher-Krause, K.E., Moreno Soares, T., Munoz, M., Neumann, M., Renner, I., Rode, J., Schniewind, I., Schwarzer, D., Tröger, U., Zinngrebe, Y., Spiering, S. (2021):
Es geht um unsere Lebensgrundlage: Wie wir jetzt handeln können, um die globalen Gemeingüter Biodiversität, Wälder und Meere für eine lebenswerte Zukunft zu erhalten
UFZ-Bericht 2/2021
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 15 S.

Website

https://www.ufz.de/global-commons/index.php?en=48111