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On September 4, 2025, ZHAW hosted “Biodiversity: Innovation as the Key to Sustainable Use” at Haus Adeline Favre, Winterthur. Experts from science, industry, policy, and NGOs explored practical strategies for protecting and enhancing biodiversity while fostering innovation. [weiterlesen]

Our group retreat took place on August 20-21 in Zürich, combining academic exchange with team building. The two-day program deepened research discussions and strengthened collaboration and friendship. [weiterlesen]

Can carbon tariffs make our food systems greener? A new study shows promising results for EU-UK trade. [weiterlesen]

A week full of inspiring talks, exciting research, and valuable connections – our highlights from SETAC 2025 in Vienna. [weiterlesen]

A new study led by Livia Cabernard, Head of our Chair, in collaboration with Clemens Schwingshackl (LMU), Stephan Pfister and Stefanie Hellweg (ETH Zürich), has been published in Communications Earth & Environment. The research sheds light on the rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions linked to the… [weiterlesen]

This study reveals how environmental and socioeconomic challenges are disproportionately affecting African nations, despite their limited contribution to global economic output. The study, titled "Tracking Africa's trajectory toward sustainability: An assessment of environmental and socioeconomic… [weiterlesen]

🌍Reporting from the biospace conference, hosted by the European Space Agency - ESA in Frascati, Italy (February 10-14). This conference, the first of its kind, focused on Remote Sensing and Biodiversity, bringing together experts to explore the role of space-based technologies in understanding and… [weiterlesen]

Warum der Agrarhandel das Artensterben beschleunigt Durch Agrarhandelsabkommen wie Mercosur wird ein Teil der europäischen Landwirtschaft in tropische Länder ausgelagert – mit schwerwiegenden Folgen: Denn der Schaden für die Biodiversität ist in diesen Regionen um ein Hundertfaches größer. [weiterlesen]

While the Hashtag#GRO24 discusses material resource use and its environmental impacts on the global and regional scale, data at country level underpins the analyses in Chapters 2 and 3. [weiterlesen]

Exporting agricultural products from tropical regions to China, the USA, the Middle East, and Europe is three times more harmful to biodiversity than previously assumed. Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the ETH Zurich have shown this by tracking how agricultural exports… [weiterlesen]