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44 The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the ETH Zurich serves as a framework for collaboration that culminated in the interdisciplinary research project “myEcosystem”. Research collaboration UNEP The overall goal of this project is to develop methods to quantify impacts to ecosystems in the South caused by consumption of products in the North. Decision-support tools will indicate potential measures to reduce this impact – be it via changes in the production or offsetting damages by consumers.
The partnership between UNEP and the ETH Zurich In November 2005, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the ETH Zurich signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formally establish cooperation between the two institutions. On the side of the ETH Zurich, the North-South Centre was given the operative mandate for the implementation of the MoU. In 2008, an interdisciplinary research group coordinated by Stefanie Hellweg developed several interlinked projects on assessing and compensating the ecosystem impacts of biophysical products in a North-South context. The projects were accepted for funding by the ETH Zurich research commission and started in 2009. An outline of the projects is presented on the following pages. In the light of this interdisciplinary research programme, the MoU was renewed in 2009 with a sharper focus on the ongoing activities. The collaboration between the ETH Zurich and UNEP is now focused on, but not limited to: investigating sustainable management of ecosystems through compensating ecosystem damage by global offsetting schemes, including payments for ecosystem services and their monetary valuation; classifying critical ecosystem services with particular emphasis on regulating functions; assessing environmental changes and trends, as well as interlinkages between the natural environment and socio-economic processes at different spatial scales; analysing sustainable production and consumption, notably through life cycle assessment; setting-up a library of case studies in which the developed methodologies are applied and the offsetting scheme is elaborated. Stefanie Hellweg, Michael Curran, Francesca Verones (all from the Institute of Environmental Engineering) with Barbara Becker and Manfred Kaufmann (both from the management team of the North-South Centre) formed a delegation of the ETH Zurich who attended a kick-off workshop at the UNEP headquarter in Nairobi in June 2009. The workshop allowed the delegation to present and discuss the projects conducted at the ETH Zurich and to receive feedback from UNEP representatives of different divisions, namely the Division on Early Warning and Assessment and the Division of Technology, Industry and Economics. As an immediate result of the workshop, three thematic feedback groups were established: on land, on water and on offsetting. These groups will form an advisory board for the three doctoral theses and provide feedback to intermediary results. UNEP suggested various case studies for the ETH research projects. It was also agreed that UNEP representatives will try to formally include the ETH projects in the UNEP Programme of Work. In addition, the workshop allowed the establishing or intensification of contacts with several high-ranking UNEP officials, among them Angela Cropper, UNEP Deputy Executive Director, who agreed to come as keynote speaker to the “Tropentag 2010” in Zurich. For UNEP, the partnership with the ETH Zurich is an important element in the ongoing initiative of strengthening the science-policy interface by bringing scientists and policymakers together. The ETH Zurich will benefit from the network of UNEP in disseminating research results worldwide and enhancing the application of the developed methods. 45 Research collaboration UNEP
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