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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  Sustainable research and consultancy on a new footing

  News 01/16/2025

  Founded more than 40 years ago, the Oeko-Institut is one of Europe’s leading independent research and consultancy organisations working for a sustainable future. In recent years, the Institute has taken on contracts to provide policy advice and conduct application-oriented research – with growing success. Our consultancy services for policy-makers and the business sector in the fields of environmental protection, climate change mitigation and sustainable development will henceforth be clustered under our newly established subsidiary, Öko-Institut Consult GmbH.

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  Better soil management: Which funding approaches have a positive effect on climate mitigation?

  News 01/08/2025

  Soils play an important role as (potential) carbon reservoirs for climate mitigation. They also play a key role in promoting biodiversity and resilience to pressures such as global warming or pollution. Worldwide, soils store two to three times more carbon than the atmosphere. They act as natural climate protectors and are therefore also a key component of the EU's agricultural policy towards a net-zero future – provided they are intact. Only then can they reduce greenhouse gas emissions and/or sequester carbon.