Sektion

Biodiv footprint Vienna 
CoBALUCE 

Pendrill, F., Persson, M., Godar, J., & Kastner, Th. (2019): Deforestation displaced: trade in forest-risk commodities and the prospects for a global forest transition. Environmental Research Letters, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab0d41

Marques, A., Martins, I.S., Kastner, Th. et al. (2019):  Increasing impacts of land use on biodiversity and carbon sequestration driven by population and economic growth. Nature Ecology and Evolution, doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0824-3

Erb, K.-H., Kastner, Th. et al. (2018): Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass. Nature, doi; doi:10.1038/nature25138

Dalin, C., Wada, Y. Kastner, Th. And Puma, M.J. (2017): Groundwater depletion embedded in international food trade. Nature, doi: 10.1038/nature21403

Chaudhary, A., Carrasco, L.R. and Kastner, Th. (2017): Linking national wood consumption with global biodiversity and ecosystem service losses. Science of The Total Environment, 586, pp.985-994, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.078

Exploring Germany’s and China’s roles as importing and consuming countries

Agriculture is one of the main drivers of current biodiversity loss, with agricultural areas covering half of all habitable land on earth. With the expected growth of the global human population and changing diets due to an expanding global middle class, demand for agricultural products is expected to further increase. More than 60% of the species currently threatened by extinction are being directly negatively affected by agricultural activity, especially in countries of the Global South. However, a significant part of the agricultural production in these areas is used to produce goods for export to and consumption in the world’s major economies, often nations in the Global North. 

• Advance methods to quantify how agricultural production and trade impact biodiversity and ecosystem change. 
• Contribute to the harmonization and communication of approaches across existing initiatives in the field. 
• Investigate the roles of Germany and China in driving ecosystem change and biodiversity loss through their agricultural imports, consumption, and exports. 
• Provide a flexible, product specific database, tailored to interest groups beyond purely the academic sector.  

Outputs of the project include scientific papers, webinars, workshops and fact sheets and will be listed ​​here. 

Project Team

Funded by Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)