Anke Benndorf

Recent projects

• Biodiversity

  Scenario-based analysis of GHG reduction and sink potentials for natural climate protection in the LULUCF sector and identification of synergies with biodiversity and other environmental goals

  06/01/2023

  The aim of the project is to investigate the solution space for the implementation of climate protection goals in the LULUCF sector in terms of natural climate protection. Special focus is placed on the topics of forest, peatland and soil climate protection, taking into account synergies with biodi

• Biodiversity

  Financial incentives for additional climate protection and biodiversity services in forests - forests with high structural diversity and biodiversity

  01/01/2023

  The German government implements an incentive system for additional climate protection and biodiversity services in forests, which has a modular structure. The project develops recommendations on the design of the financial incentive system for additional climate protection and biodiversity servi

• Biodiversity

  Climate protection measures in coastal regions and waters - accounting, crediting and financing of blue carbon measures

  11/30/2022

  The research project pursues the following objectives: - Analysing the current role of blue carbon in the global climate architecture (negotiations and NDCs), - Analysing opportunities and risks of different financing instruments for blue carbon measures, especially market-based approaches, - Analy

• Biodiversity

  Potentials of afforestation and forest restoration from a nature conservation perspective

  10/01/2022

  Against the backdrop of the German government's climate protection targets until 2045, increasing the proportion of forests is increasingly being discussed as a political goal due to the climate protection performance of forests. However, it is not clear to what extent this should be achieved in

• Biodiversity

  Co-designing Holistic Forest-based Policy Pathways for Climate Change Mitigation

  09/01/2022

  ForestPaths aims to co-design, quantify and evaluate holistic forest-based policy pathways to optimize the contribution of forests and the forest-based sector to climate change mitigation, and which consider the need to adapt forests to climate change, conserve biodiversity and sustain the provisio

• Biodiversity

  Support to the EEA LULUCF emission inventory improvement activity

  07/01/2022

  The project provides support to EU Member States to further upgrade and improve their GHG inventories to be fit for purpose for target compliance under the LULUCF regulation. To achieve that goal, the project team reviews currently applied methodologies and analyses the different approaches and d

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  The EU Carbon Certification Removal Framework and its methodologies must be improved to deliver on their goals

  Blog 12/12/2024

  In October 2024, the European Commission presented draft methodologies for the European Union’s Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF). These methodologies set out requirements for the certification of carbon removals and soil emission reductions from various mitigation activities.

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  The ICVCM approval of three REDD methodologies presents risks to the integrity of the initiative

  Blog 12/10/2024

  In November 2024, the Governing Board of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) approved three methodologies for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). The methodologies are now eligible for issuing “high integrity” carbon credits under the Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) label of the ICVCM. We are concerned with this decision. While the methodologies have been improved compared to previous versions, in our assessment they do not meet the requirements of the ICVCM Assessment Framework. Here we explain why.