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Dr Stephan Sina, Senior Fellow at the Ecologic Institute, gave a presentation on the new Environmental Crime Directive at a conference on water crime organised by the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). He provided an overview of the directive’s key provisions and offered an initial assessment based on its planned implementation in Germany.

The EU Environmental Crime Directive


Dr. Stephan Sina

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Event:Workshop
 
The Raw Materials Exchange for Public Catering brings together farmers, food processors, caterers and kitchen operators from Brandenburg and Berlin. The focus is on matching concrete demand with available supply and fostering new partnerships along regional organic value chains.

Raw Materials Exchange for Public Catering

Market Information Talk 2026


Oranienburg, Germany

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Publication:Article
 
In this article Dr. Stephan Sina provides an overview of the key provisions of the Directive, with a focus on water protection offences, and examines, based on the planned implementation in Germany, the extent to which the Directive facilitates the prosecution of water crime. This is also of interest to Switzerland, as the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Crime Law, adopted in 2025, is modelled on the Directive.

Die EU-Umweltstrafrechtsrichtlinie: Der Schlüssel zur konsequenten Verfolgung von Wasserkriminalität?

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Event:Workshop
 
The fourth Market Information Forum 2026 is dedicated to successful cooperatives, producer associations, and marketing models in Brandenburg. The focus will be on collective marketing, aggregation of production volumes, and regional sales structures. In addition, practical questions concerning the establishment and organisation of producer associations will be discussed.

Producer Associations and Cooperatives

Market Information Talk 2026


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Event:Workshop
 
The third Market Information Talk 2026 focused on logistics structures for organic products in Brandenburg. The event highlighted existing initiatives, cooperative models, and practical examples from regional value chains. Together, participants were developing a current picture of the logistics landscape: What is already working well? What lessons have been learned? And where is further action needed?

Efficient Logistics Structures for Organic Products

Market Information Talk 2026


Oranienburg, Germany

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Publication:Article
 
A new Roundtable published by The Nature of Cities asks a central question for the planning and implementation of nature-based solutions: whose voices shape decisions, and who remains unheard? Curated by McKenna Davis of Ecologic Institute and Natalia Andrea Burgos Cuevas of the IUCN, the Roundtable brings together 29 contributors from around the world to reflect on what meaningful inclusion, co-creation and environmental justice can look like in practice.

Whose Voices Shape and Make Decisions in Nbs, and Who Doesn’t Get Included?

What could real inclusion look like in practice?

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Publication:Article
 
To assess current knowledge and identify future research priorities, approximately 40 experts from academia, policy institutions, and the science–policy interface convened in Berlin in September 2025 for an international workshop on the Arctic land–ocean carbon cycle. The outcomes of these discussions have now been published in a meeting summary co-authored by Arne Riedel Escobar of Ecologic Institute, providing a roadmap for future research and policy engagement.

Research Priorities for the Coupled Arctic Land–Ocean Carbon Cycle

Integrating Scientific and Policy Perspectives

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Project:Horizon Europe
 
With the EU Nature Restoration Regulation, Member States are now required to restore ecosystems, including agricultural ecosystems, while ensuring that restoration is practical, socially grounded and compatible with viable farming systems. The Horizon Europe project BALANCE supports this challenge by demonstrating how farming systems can be nature-positive while remaining economically viable and embedded in local realities.

Biodiversity and Landscape Restoration through Agricultural Systems for Nature Conservation and Resilient Farm Economies (BALANCE)

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Event:Digital Event
 
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On 24 June 2026, Ecologic Institute, Trinity College Dublin and WWF Sweden will host an online stakeholder consultation on the further development of a Nature-Positive Economy Roadmap for Europe. The event will present emerging findings from the Horizon Europe project GoNaturePositive! and gather feedback to inform the next steps in developing the roadmap.

Scaling-up a Nature-Positive Economy Roadmap for Europe

Stakeholder Consultation


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News
 
Ecologic Institute experts will convene and contribute to three sessions at the upcoming Nature-based Solutions (NbS) International Congress in Paris from 2 to 6 November 2026. The sessions were selected as part of a competitive scientific conference programme featuring 33 sessions chosen from more than 100 international proposals. The Congress has now opened its Call for Abstracts and Posters, inviting researchers and practitioners to contribute to the thematic sessions and engage with the global NbS scientific community.
 

Submit your Research to Ecologic Institute's Sessions at the NbS International Congress

Call for Abstracts and Posters

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Project:Horizon Europe
 
The transition towards a sustainable and circular bioeconomy is central to achieving Europe’s climate, biodiversity and resilience goals. However, stakeholder engagement and coordination across the European bioeconomy landscape remain uneven, particularly across regions and sectors. STRONGBIONET addresses these challenges by strengthening and connecting bioeconomy networks across Europe and beyond. The project will establish an EU-wide, multilingual digital platform designed as a “network of networks” to support stakeholder engagement, knowledge exchange, investor readiness, education and science-policy dialogue.

Strengthening and Connecting Bioeconomy Networks to Improve Resilience, Competitiveness and Growth (STRONGBIONET)

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Publication:Policy Brief
 
This policy brief, developed within the Horizon Europe project CAFAMORE, examines the proposed EU Buyers’ Club for carbon farming. The brief sets out how the Club should be designed to support early demand for CRCF carbon farming certificates while ensuring environmental integrity and that it benefits farmers.

The Do’s and Don’ts of a Buyers’ Club

Recommendations for an EU Buyers’ Club for Carbon Farming

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Publication:Report
 
This report identifies and characterises systemic environmental risks, explores how they interact across societal systems, and analyses governance approaches that can respond to them. It introduces risk constellations as a practical way to discuss complex risk interactions. This approach allows experts and policymakers to map drivers, magnifiers and impacts at a manageable scale while still keeping sight of the wider system in which risks unfold.

Systemic and Complex Risk Governance for Europe’s Preparedness and Sustainability

Environmental risk drivers and transformative governance responses in Europe

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Publication:Report
 
This publication documents informational and educational materials for the fields of medicine, pharmacy, and health communication. The project aimed to reduce the release of pharmaceutical substances into the environment and to strengthen the integration of environmental knowledge into education, teaching, and professional practice. The project produced openly accessible materials for universities and continuing education programmes, pharmacies, and the general public. In addition, an online platform was established to consolidate scientific background information, infographics, and teaching resources.

Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen fragen Sie ... das Umweltbundesamt!

Informations- und Lehrmaterialien für einen umweltbewussten Umgang mit Humanarzneimitteln

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