• Leibniz Lab

    Systemic Sustainability Biodiversity, Climate, Agriculture and Food within Planetary Boundaries

Biodiversity, climate, agriculture and food: From a tense relationship to systemic insights and innovations

The loss of biodiversity and climate change are accelerating rapidly. Our dietary habits and the associated agricultural practices are significant contributors. These environmental changes, in turn, affect agriculture and food security. How can we protect biodiversity and the climate while securing food supplies? What technical, economic and social innovations do we need to achieve this? The Leibniz Lab ‘Systemic Sustainability’ addresses these questions. It integrates knowledge of the Leibniz Association, national and international partners and societal actors to find joint solutions to one of the great challenges of our time.

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  • 4-Day Side-Event in the COP30 Green Zone

    Upcoming 13/11/2025 – 16/11/2025
    Side event of COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Federal University of Pará and field sites, Belém and Braganca and Online
    The event highlights the critical role of innovations in driving transformations across the interconnected fields…
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  • Planetary Health, Food Security: Earth System Change, Food and Health

    Upcoming 14/10/2025 9:00 am –10:30 am
    Forum 2, World Health Summit 2025, Berlin, Germany
    Experts discuss how changes in the Earth system could affect food security and global health.
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  • The Leibniz Association: Uniting Minds for Impactful Research

    Upcoming 14/10/2025
    Event of Expo 2025, Osaka, Kansai, Japan
    Innovation emerges when knowledge is shared, combined, and further developed.
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      The Leibniz Lab 'Systemic Sustainability'

      In the new scientific format of a Leibniz Lab, 41 institutions of the Leibniz Association are explicitly addressing biodiversity, climate, agriculture and food as a common area of action and conflict. Together with national and international partners, they are developing new tailored approaches to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge integration and the systemic assessment of sustainability. In specific dialogue formats, they tap into innovation potentials for transformations towards sustainability and target group-oriented transfer products with societal actors. Due to mutual interdependencies, they take into account the local-regional level in areas of the Global North and South, up to the international level. Boundaries of the earth system are deliberately included.