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Ida Meyenberg

Ida Meyenberg

MSc (International Land and Water Management)
BA (Public Policy and Governance)

Coordinator International Cooperation
Researcher

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Ida Meyenberg is a Researcher and Coordinator for International Cooperation at Ecologic Institute in Berlin. Her work focuses on water management, landscape water balance, agriculture, as well as climate adaptation policy in the EU and Germany. Ida Meyenberg is a native German speaker and is fluent in English and French. She also has knowledge of Spanish, Dutch, and Arabic.

For Ecologic Institute, she works on the project Implementing Nature-based Solutions for Water Retention and Climate Resilience in Europe (SpongeWorks) on measures to enhance water retention in landscapes, contributing in particular to scenario development and the creation of a financing toolkit for nature-based solutions. Related to this work, she also authored a handbook on Water Stewardship in German agriculture for the Ecologic Institute. In addition, she organises co-design processes and is responsible for stakeholder engagement processes and the design of (inter)national workshops, including for the European Commission’s DG Climate project on Guidance on Climate-Resilient Landscapes and the German Environment Agency (UBA) project on Guidelines for Dealing with Water Scarcity.

Ida Meyenberg has been involved in the project Integrating Nature into Urban Ecology, Hydrology and Society (NICHES), a three-year BiodivERsA and Water JPI project that aims to demonstrate how nature-based solutions can be better utilised to transform cities sustainably. She was primarily responsible for the comparative governance analysis and took over the assistance project coordination. She was also involved in the project Sustainable Management of the Landscape Water Balance to Increase Climate Resilience (KliMaWerk), which creates coupled climate and land use scenarios in the Lippe catchment area. Moreover, Ida evaluated projects in the field of flood plain and river restoration in the Report to Support the Evaluation of Natural Climate Protection Action Programme (ANK) in 2025

Before joining Ecologic Institute, Ida Meyenberg worked for the Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Eschborn (Germany). In the sector project for international forest policy, she worked in depth on forest and landscape restoration, carbon credits, and the forest-water nexus. Furthermore, she supported the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with political advice in the field of participation of (indigenous) civil society in forest conservation.

During her MSc studies at Wageningen University (The Netherlands), Ida Meyenberg worked as a student assistant for the course Climate Smart Agriculture. During her master thesis research in the West Bank (Palestine), she gained experience in conducting international and transdisciplinary research projects with a focus on transboundary wastewater management and stakeholder integration (DUPC2). She completed her bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of Passau (Germany), with a year abroad at Science Po Grenoble (France).

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Selected projects by Ida Meyenberg
 
NICHES project logo: Project name in capital letters. in the letters you can see a skyline, above it green and blue horizon

© NICHES

Heavy rainfall events increasingly overload combined sewage systems, resulting in an overflow of contaminated water into the nearby environment and threats to aquatic biodiversity. There is thus an urgent need to identify new, more sustainable solutions which are... Read more
 

Compassion Over Killing, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Illegal pollution of soil, water, and air, unauthorised handling of waste, and violations of animal welfare laws continue to be among the most prevalent forms of environmental crime in Germany. Environmental crimes cause considerable ecological damage and can harm human... Read more
The Guidance on Climate Resilient Landscapes project, financed by DG CLIMA, will develop actionable guidance to strengthen climate resilience in Europe's rural landscapes. With floods, droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires becoming more frequent and severe, landscapes need... Read more

Guidance on Climate Resilient Landscapes

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Bild von Wälz auf Pixabay

The aim of this project is to prepare a report that will serve as the basis for the evaluation report on the Federal Action Plan on Nature-based Solution for Climate and Biodiversity (ANK) to be submitted by the Federal Government in 2025. In March 2023, the Federal... Read more
 

Wikitarisch, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The effects of climate change on the water balance are clearly noticeable. Increasing droughts, changing precipitation patterns and falling groundwater levels are leading to conflicts of use between agriculture, industry, energy supply and drinking water supply. To meet... Read more

Guidelines for Dealing with Water Scarcity

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The Pacific Island Countries face multiple climate-related challenges. Rising air and sea temperatures intensify cyclones, that damage water and sanitation infrastructure. Droughts impacting surface water, rainwater, and groundwater sources. Rural communities struggle... Read more
 

© Justin Wilkens | Unsplash

Current situation and problem relevance Due to climate change, extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity in Germany. Heavy rainfall events but also prolonged drought and heat have serious impacts on the landscape water balance as well as the... Read more
Selected publications by Ida Meyenberg
 

Photo: Compassion Over Killing, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, Cover: Umweltbundesamt, 2026

This publication provides a quantitative overview of the development and status of environmental crime in Germany between 2013 and 2024, based on data from the police crime statistics ("Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik") and the Federal Statistical Office's criminal... Read more

Sina, Stephan; Jenny Tröltzsch, Ida Meyenberg (2026): Umweltdelikte 2024. Auswertung von Statistiken. Dessau-Roßlau: Umweltbundesamt.

 

Photo: Justin Wilkens | Unsplash, Cover: KlimaWerk, 2025

Climate change is exacerbating drought, low water levels, and heavy rainfall in German river basins, posing new challenges for agriculture, forestry, water management, ecosystems, and municipal planning. Against this backdrop, the project KliMaWerk – Sustainable... Read more

Sommerhäuser, M. et al. (2025). Sachbericht zum Verwendungsnachweis: Verbundprojekt KliMaWerk – Nachhaltige Bewirtschaftung des Landschaftswasserhaushaltes zur Erhöhung der Klimaresilienz: Management und Werkzeuge (Fördermaßnahme WaX – Wasser-Extremereignisse). Projektbericht.

 

© Photo by Coralie Meurice via unsplash, Cover via BfN

The study was commissioned by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) to support the German Federal Government in reporting on the Action Programme for Natural Climate Protection (ANK). Ecologic Institute led the project and was responsible for analysing the... Read more

Tröltzsch, J., Stelljes, N., Holzhausen, G., Ropers, G., Felthöfer, C., Meyenberg, I., von Pannwitz, K., Ittner, S., Krings, H. (2025). Gutachten zur Umsetzung und Wirkungen von Fördermaßnahmen im ANK (BfN-Schriften 753). Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN). https://doi.org/10.19217/skr753 

 

© NICHES project 2025

In this policy brief, Ida Meyenberg and Evgeniya Elkina analyze which governance approaches enable the successful implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS) for managing combined sewer overflows (CSO) in cities. The central question is what institutional, procedural... Read more

Meyenberg, Ida & Elkina, Evgeniya 2025: What Makes Nature-Based Solutions Work? Governance Approaches for Managing Combined Sewer Overflows (Policy Brief, NICHES Project). Ecologic Institute.

 
Cover of a WWF publication titled “Handbook of Agricultural Measures for Enhancing Water Retention, Water Quality and Biodiversity in Germany.” The image shows an aerial view of a vibrant landscape: a yellow agricultural field adjacent to a dense green forest strip, with a winding river separating forested areas. The WWF logo with a panda is in the upper left corner.

© WWF, 2025

Germany is under increasing water stress, despite rising precipitation and extreme weather. The core issue lies not in rainfall quantity, but in the inability of our anthropogenically modified landscape to retain water. The Handbook of Agricultural Measures for... Read more

Ida Meyenberg, Ulf Stein, Aaron Scheid, Rodrigo Vidaurre, Felix Dengler, Christian Schneider, Johanna Krähling, Richard Beisecker (2024): Handbook of Agricultural Measures for Enhancing Water Retention, Water Quality and Biodiversity in Germany. Ecologic Institute, Berlin. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15236788

Selected events by Ida Meyenberg
On 3 December 2024, the Ecologic Institute in Berlin hosted the workshop 'Transformation of urban stormwater management through nature-based solutions: Future Paths for Berlin'. This half-day event brought together experts from urban development, water management,... Read more

Workshop:Transformation of Berlin's Rainwater Management through NbS

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Berlin, Germany