Workshop on "The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity"

ZEF is collaborating with "The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity" study, led by Pavan Sukhdev. In this context ZEF hosted a meeting for a group of 30 leading international scientists contributing to the scientific part of the study, led by Pushpam Kumar from January 12-14, 2009.

The scientists in the fields of environmental and ecological economics as well as ecology came together to discuss the study due to be published at the next Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, 2010.

Pictures of the workshop:

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Further information:

UNEP:

http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=550&ArticleID=5979&l=en

EU:

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/biodiversity/economics/

BMU:

http://www.bmu.de/wirtschaft_und_umwelt/downloads/doc/42733.php

BMU:

http://www.bmu.de/pressemitteilungen/aktuelle_pressemitteilungen/pm/42730.php

BMU:

http://www.bmu.de/naturschutz_biologische_vielfalt/un-konferenz_2008/dokumente/doc/41607.php

A summary of TEEB by Mark Schauer:

http://www.cbd.int/doc/meetings/cop-bureau/cop-bur-2008/cop-bur-2008-10-teeb-en.pdf

The midterm report can be downloaded at:

http://www.bmu.de/files/pdfs/allgemein/application/pdf/sukhdev_interim_report.pdf