Christian Schneider

Recent projects

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• Biodiversity

  Consolidating Systemic Monitoring and Modelling of the Bioeconomy

  01/01/2022

  SYMOBIO lays the scientific basics for systemic monitoring and modelling of the German bioeconomy with respect to sustainability aspects, also on an international level. The development of the monitoring system goes in line with the goals of the Agenda 2030 and is framed by a bioeconomy systems a

• Biodiversity

  Development of a Sustainable Food Act (NLG) for Germany analogous to the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) of the energy industry

  09/01/2021

  The "Blueprint for Agriculture" project is developing an instrument that transfers the basic principles of the EEG to the production of agricultural products. The basic idea is to pay a fixed "feed-in tariff" for sustainably produced food, similar to the Renewable Energy Sources Act, and to distr

• Food systems

  Impact of the implementation of the Planetary Health Diet on the agricultural sector

  07/29/2021

  The project considers the impact of a dietary change to the Planetary Health Diet recommendations on domestic agriculture and quantifies it in terms of land development and greenhouse gas development. In addition to dietary change, environmental goals such as peatland rewetting and the expansion

• International

  Ambitious GHG mitigation in the agricultural sector: Analysis of sustainable mitigation potential in selected countries

  08/05/2020

  In this research project, Oeko-Institut supported UBA in leading IG AFOLU during the German Council Presidency in 2020, with project staff taking on administrative-logistical tasks around the UNFCCC processes on land use aspects, preparing information and producing background analyses that could

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  “The Global South can benefit from carbon markets”

  Blog 07/23/2024

  She ended up working on carbon markets more “by accident” than by design, as she herself says. After completing her Master’s, Kristin Qui was looking for a role in international diplomacy, preferably one which also covered sustainable development.

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  Contributions of marine ecosystems to CO2 storage and biodiversity

  Press releases 07/15/2024

  Seagrass meadows, mangrove forests and salt marshes can absorb and store up to 216 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere worldwide every year. Over centuries to millennia, they form an enormous carbon store of up to 22,000 million tonnes of carbon in marine sediments. At the same time, they make an important contribution to the preservation of biodiversity in the oceans and on the coasts, help to protect against storm surges and coastal defences and thereby contribute to the nutrition and safety of millions of people. This is shown in a research report by Oeko-Institut and the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research and commissioned by the German Environment Agency. The report examines the importance of coastal ecosystems for global climate protection.