DLD Nature 2024
2024-09-12..2024-09-13
Munich, Germany
as the organisers put it
Why invest in nature? Hear from experts across science, business and politics at DLD Nature on September 12-13, 2024, in Munich…
who it's for
conservation scientists, biodiversity policymakers, nature-focused investors, environmental ngos, regenerative agriculture practitioners, tech for conservation teams, corporate sustainability officers, science communicators
topics
biodiversity finance and valuation; soil restoration and carbon sequestration; ecosystem mapping and sensing; machine learning for bioacoustics; rewilding and large herbivores; nature-based climate mitigation; policy instruments for restoration; regenerative farming practices; digital conservation payments; coastal and marine biodiversity; electronics for nature protection; conservation data pipelines
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening & Welcome | Elisabeth Burda Furtwängler, Steffi Czerny, Maria Furtwängler, Yossi Vardi | 28m |
Conference launch frames biodiversity loss as urgent and fixable, highlights concrete figures like 100 million hectares lost per year and 10 trillion annual… | ||
| Keynote – Markus Söder | Markus Söder | 28m |
Bavaria claims concrete targets and tools: a €5+ billion high‑tech agenda, one billion for climate protection, and pushes renewables (more photovoltaics than… | ||
| Biodiversity – Setting the Scene | Frauke Fischer | 06m |
Biodiversity breaks into three concrete layers: genetic diversity, species diversity, and ecosystem diversity, each needed for pollination, carbon… | ||
| Nature: Does Finance Care? | Günther Thallinger | 16m |
Nature loss already shows up in balance sheets: central-bank studies put it at 8–10% of global GDP, insurers see rising premiums and whole mortgages becoming… | ||
| Communicating Inconvenient Truths | Josef Settele, Eckart von Hirschhausen | 23m |
Concrete claims and tactics: nature’s free pollination services are valued at 250–600 billion euros, one jar of honey would cost €300,000 per jar if bees… | ||
| Sensing Nature | Alexa Firmenich | 16m |
Naia Trust runs about 30 investments across market, catalytic and philanthropic capital and claims to have helped build the world's most comprehensive measure… | ||
| New Ways of Understanding Nature | Mara-Daria Cojocaru, Jane Lawton, Katrin Vohland, Maria Furtwängler | 28m |
Claims that culturalization erodes childhood curiosity and calls for interspecies solidarity defined as social, political and civic commitments; museums run… | ||
| Understanding the Forest | Jan Haft | 14m |
Garden ponds grazed by water buffalo and ponies create sunnier, richer wetlands where frogs, dragonflies and birds become more abundant; managed grazing… | ||
| How to Repair a Broken System | Vandana Shiva | 14m |
Women in the Himalayas use Chipko tree-hugs and lantern protests to link deforestation with landslides and vanishing springs; a seed-saving network called… | ||
| New Ways in Agriculture | Matthias Berninger, Jan Plagge, Jan-Gisbert Schultze, Maria Furtwängler | 31m |
Panel lays out concrete claims and fixes: a multinational spends €2.5 billion R&D on seeds and crop protection while regulators reapprove glyphosate for… | ||
| Eye to Eye with Nature | Felix Neureuther, Stefan Schwarz, Steffi Czerny | 19m |
Moderated conversation describes concrete actions: a foundation founded four years ago that brings 880,000 kids annually into outdoor sports and nature… | ||
| Breaking the Species Divide: Data and Gorillas with Credit Cards | Robin Freeman, Matthew Gould, Jonathan Ledgard, Eleanor O'Keefe | 23m |
Conservation groups report that reliable data and economics must tie together: the Living Planet Index shows a 69% decline, teams ingest camera‑trap, audio and… | ||
| How the Energy Transition & Biodiversity Interlink | Bastian Gierull, Greg Williams | 16m |
Octopus Energy pairs renewables with concrete biodiversity steps: customers opt to donate €2/month to Everwave, funding removal of 55,000 kg of river plastic… | ||
| Digging into Wealth: The Untapped Potential of Healthy Soil for Nature and Economies | Torsten Kurth | 08m |
Soil hosts staggering biodiversity — one teaspoon contains more organisms than the entire human population — and can act as a scalable nature-based fix for… | ||
| Deep Dive: Tech Solutions for Preserving Biodiversity | Kat Bruce, Alex Dehgan, Mirko Kovac, Michael Schmidt, Frauke Fischer | 46m |
Panel lays out concrete tools and results: eDNA water filters that pull whole-ecosystem DNA, sequenced and reduced by ML into single ecosystem-condition… | ||
| Deep Dive: Reconnecting with Nature | Thomas Hauck, Sebastian Koth, Werner Lang, Ferdinand Ludwig, Marlene Stechl, Wolfgang Weisser, Andrea Gebhard | 41m |
Cities need 400,000 new homes while 75% of people live in cities and spend 80–90% of their time indoors, so the session pushes concrete fixes: a PV shading… | ||
| Deep Dive: Accelerating Soil Restoration | Anne-Sophie Christmann, Simon Krämer, Benjamin Subei, Martin Wiesmeier, Nikola Baumschlager, Roman Werner, Coastal BioTech | 01h 17m |
Panelists cite a BCG estimate of ~€14 billion annual upside for Germany from healthier soils and note some soil changes only appear after decades (30 years to… | ||
| Oceans, Forests, Ice – Biodiversity in Crisis | Frank Glaw, Anneke H. van Heteren, Gert Wörheide | 19m |
Coral reefs cover ~1% of the ocean yet harbor >30% of marine biodiversity, provide >$10 trillion/yr in services, and face 99% of coral reefs by 2100 under… | ||
| Biodiversity through the Lens | Prince Hussain Aga Khan, Auguste von Bayern | 19m |
Passionate field photographs and first‑hand encounters with whales, dolphins, turtles, sharks and orangutans illustrate specific threats and wins: global… | ||
| Understanding System Traps for Transformative Policy Making | Maja Göpel | 19m |
Argues that adopting system traps awareness and systems thinking lets policy and business spot when designs are outdated, cites the fast‑wood forestry subsidy… | ||
| Investing in Nature – Building a Business Case to Save the Planet | Johan Rockström, Stefan Wintels, Martin Stuchtey, Solveigh Hieronimus | 26m |
Claims that nature underpins roughly $4 trillion of economic value and supplies 56% buffering of carbon set the scale: current annual investment runs around… | ||
| Biodiversity & Policy Making | Martin Frick, Stientje van Veldhoven, Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 20m |
Policy prescriptions and hard numbers: the EU biodiversity strategy lists 100 actions in biodiversity strategy: 50 done, 43 in progress, 11 delayed… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 14m |
Calls for holistic, non‑linear policymaking with concrete claims: GDP fails as sole measure, at 1.5°C the economy may lose 2.5–3% of GDP and at 3°C 10–12%, and… | ||
| Sciencepreneurs = Nature Positive | Helmut Schönenberger | 10m |
An entrepreneurship center built from five people at TUM scales into a network that grows 25% per year (doubling impact every three years), spawns about 30% of… | ||
| Keynote – Ursula von der Leyen | Ursula von der Leyen | 21m |
Urgent call to rewire the economy so protecting nature becomes profitable: propose nature credits modeled on the EU carbon market that cut emissions nearly 50%… | ||
| The Double Crisis: Climate & Biodiversity | Johan Rockström | 18m |
Global temperature reaches 1.2°C and models project ~2.7°C on current pathways while the planetary boundaries framework and IPCC/IPBES syntheses show six of… | ||
| Biodiversity Loss: A Security Issue!? | Florian Krampe, Tom Middendorp, Benedikt Franke | 18m |
Argues biodiversity loss and climate change already multiply security risks, citing water scarcity driving local conflict in Afghanistan and a 2.4°C rise in… | ||
| Electronics for Innovation in Nature Protection | Alexander Gerfer, David Schmider, Linda Hinz | 20m |
A hand-built prototype device called the biot box captures microclimate and bioacoustic soundscapes, streams data over LTE + solar power and is being upgraded… | ||
| Business Case Biodiversity | Heba Aguib, David Diallo, Korbinian Kantenwein, Tobias Raffel | 19m |
Argues a concrete business case using a 4R framework — Regulation, Reputation, Resilience, Return — and cites facts: 50% of pharma products are natural, an ECB… | ||
| Leadership for Nature | Tina Müller, Dirk Rossmann, Eckart von Hirschhausen | 21m |
Company runs an 800‑plant biodynamic herb garden, composts onsite and claims products “protect the Earth’s skin”; new logistics center is being built with… | ||
| Shades of Green – On a Train Ride to Nature | Katrin Habenschaden, Christoph Heinrich | 15m |
Deutsche Bahn is drafting a company-wide biodiversity strategy right now, moving beyond carbon-focused claims (green-striped IC trains and large hydropower… | ||
| Nature Wealth: Saving Biodiversity Hotspots | Martin Schaefer, Christof Schenck, Korbinian Kantenwein, Auguste von Bayern | 20m |
Biodiversity hotspots cover 2.3% of land yet harbor 40% of terrestrial species; the plan is a 300 million euro fund to acquire, lease or contract lands for… | ||
| Impact through Wonder – How Art and Design Give Nature a Voice | Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Lena Thiele, Tom Kortbeek, Sabine Hansky, Sarah Dorkenwald | 19m |
Biodiversity research shows that three measures—protected areas plus restoration, sustainable productive agriculture, and reduced food waste and meat… | ||
| Deep Dive: Impact through Wonder – How Art and Design Give Nature a Voice | Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Lena Thiele, Tom Kortbeek, Florain Rödiger, Sabine Hansky, Sarah Dorkenwald | 47m |
Myriad combines a 360° 3D documentary and a 32‑minute VR experience with a tactile exhibition of three huge carbon‑block installations that project the lives… | ||
| Deep Dive: From Landfill to Lifeline | Barbara Bachus, Michail Ginsburg, Alexis Olans Haas, Frederik Zohm, Niclas-Alexander Mauss | 49m |
Claims and concrete pilots dominate: industry links 580 billion tons of raw materials consumed in six years to 90% of biodiversity loss and 45% of emissions… | ||
| Deep Dive: Business Case Biodiversity | Sebastian Brandis, Jerome Cochet, David Diallo, Nicola Rodewald, Martin Schaefer | 51m |
Coalitions commit to concrete targets and standards: the Symbiosis Coalition pledges 20 million tons by 2030, issues a joint RFP end‑2024, and enforces five… | ||
| Closing Keynote | Eckart von Hirschhausen | 24m |
Closing remarks emphasize concrete wins and scalable levers: a 600 million debt swap yields a marine reserve 1.5x Switzerland funded in perpetuity; an Ecuador… | ||
| Biodiverse Metropoles | Stefano Boeri, Hans-Ulrich Obrist | 22m |
Prototype vertical-forest towers host 21,000 plants from 60 species, attract 20 bird species and house 363 residents after a 10‑year test, and the team claims… | ||
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