For life, for the future Biosphere reserves and climate change

world network of biosphere reserves
can provide many examples
for concrete action. (Beate Jessel,
President of the German Federal
Agency for Nature Conservation)
• Biosphere reserves may develop
new mechanisms for mitigating
climate change like carbon
markets and innovative financing
mechanisms to fight against the
consequences of deforestation
and forest degradation in developing
countries. (Irina Bokova,
UNESCO Director-General)
• Since we do not have the solution
for climate change today, we
must find solutions in practice;
for this we should use the
biosphere reserves. (Natarajan
Ishwaran, UNESCO MAB
Secretary)
• The biosphere reserves have
been successful in demonstrating
especially one thing over the last
40 years: how to assemble all
relevant actors around a table
and build consensus for sustainability
– and to find solutions and
ways of transformation not only
on a national but on a global
level. (Stanislaw Tillich, Prime
Minister of Saxony)
• Biosphere reserves tend to
address conflicts head-on instead
of sweeping them under the
carpet; thus enabling the consensual,
exemplary development of
solutions. (Beate Jessel, President
of the German Federal Agency
for Nature Conservation)
• Between different human beings,
there will always be conflicts of
interests; a special competence
of UNESCO biosphere reserves
consists in managing and negotiating
such conflicts. (Natarajan
Ishwaran, UNESCO MAB
Secretary)
• Meaningful conflict management
is important. But exactly this –
to look into forms of good governance
– is tested very successfully
in biosphere reserves. (Susanne
Stoll-Kleemann, University of
Greifswald, Germany)
• Biosphere reserves can make a
difference in getting people to
actually work with each other, to
understand the need to cope with
a changing situation. (Martin
Price, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable
Mountain Development,
United Kingdom)
• In the real world, every measure
requires minimizing negative
trade-offs. In biosphere reserves
there is the unique opportunity
to demonstrate that we can use
some of the natural flows without
compromising biodiversity. (Uwe
Fritsche, Institute for Applied
Ecology of Germany)
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