'Biodiversity in Good Company" and three partners launch a new series of events ─ high-level kick-off event with Klaus Töpfer on 24 September in Berlin

The „Diskussionsforum Ökosystemleistungen“ (Discussion Forum Ecosystem Services) is a new series of events that is launched in Germany by the environmental NGO Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH), 'Biodiversity in Good Company‘ and two partners from academia, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). The new series offers an open discussion forum where interested stakeholders from business, politics and society are invited to debate the opportunities and risks of the ecosystem services approach and of valuing natural capital.

For the first meeting on
24 September 2014, 06:00 p.m.
at Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V., Berlin 

we are pleased to be able to welcome two renowned speakers with different views on this topic: 

Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director IASS Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e. V. and former executive director of UNEP 
and 
Barbara Unmüßig, President Heinrich Böll Foundation.

We hope to help achieve more clarity on where the economic valuation of nature, ecosystems and their services makes sense and where it has its limits or would even be counterproductive and dangerous. The follow-up events will each have a thematic focus.

Programme and invitation with further information available in German only <link http: www.business-and-biodiversity.de aktuellesarchiv news diskussionsforum-oekoystemleistungen-24092014-in-berlin-einladung-und-programm _blank external-link-new-window external link in new>on our website