28 October 2013
European Environmental Bureau: Germany urged to stop blocking European action on Soil during Global Soil Week
28 October 2013
Stop the impervious coverage of the soil! Restore the fertility of our urban soil!
To launch the 2nd Global Soil Week (27-31 October 2013), IASS Executive Director Professor Klaus Töpfer, Volkert Engelsman from the “Save Our Soils” campaign and environmental activist Vandana Shiva broke up sealed soil at Potsdamer Platz and planted it with…
ZDFtivi – logo!: Bodenforscher treffen sich in Potsdam
27 October 2013
The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative: A global initiative for sustainable land management
The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) is an initiative for a global study on the economic benefits of land and land based ecosystems. The initiative highlights the value of sustainable land management and provides a global approach for analysis of…
IASS and Joint Research Center of the European Commission sign Collaboration Agreement
On the occasion of the Global Soil 2013, Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) and Maria Betti, Director of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) of the European Commission, signed a 5-year Collaboration…
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems: The governance challenge of a land degradation neutral world
24 October 2013
Soils and Land in the SDGs and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
EC-UBA-IASS together with experts from the communities of soils, land, science, policy and NGOs, are proposing a sustainable development goal to achieve a Land Degradation Neutral World and have developed a set of targets and sub-targets. Based on the decision…
Houses, traffic and industry: How does urbanization matter for soil?
The 7th International Conference of the Working Group Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas (SUITMA) of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) was held in Torun, Poland, 16-20 September 2013. Objective was to share the latest…
Umweltbundesamt: Global Soil Week 2013
21 October 2013