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RiffReporter (“ReefReporter”) is a novel project for lively quality journalism and has already won the Grimme Online Award and the #Netzwende Prize. On www.riffreporter.de, readers will find a wide variety of well researched journalism on scientific, societal, cultural, environmental and technological topics, written by professional freelance authors who work for major newspapers, magazines and broadcasting companies.

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The rich diversity of life on Earth is under threat. In 2022, representatives of 190 states met at a United Nations conference to determine new global environmental protection goals for the year 2030. The outcome is uncertain: previous goals have not been achieved, so will these fare any better? Do society as a whole and representatives of policymakers and industry have enough information? What role does Germany play in the UN Conference known as “COP15”?

Despite its huge significance, the matter is largely ignored by the media, so the RiffReporter cooperative and science journalists have joined forces to set up the project “Countdown Natur”, which offers comprehensive coverage of matters related to biodiversity. The Hering-Stiftung Natur and Mensch funds the research and publication of a substantial number of contributions which aim to offer positive solutions – scenarios for the successive development of effective biodiversity protection.

Reporting should ensure that environmental protection and biodiversity are given the prominent platform required to raise collective awareness of them.
The political process related to the COP 15 conference is accompanied in a way which provides the best possible education.
The public should be informed about the importance of biodiversity and what individuals can do in support of biodiversity.
The highly diverse topic should be presented in an understandable, accessible and tangible way.
An international teams of researchers will report globally and nationally on problems and solutions across the biodiversity spectrum.

Projekt-Riffreporter Projekte

December 2021

Projekt Riffreporter Ende 2021

UN Conference COP 15

In 2021, there is another attempt to define new worldwide environmental protection goals to be achieved by 2030, and above all to concentrate more on their implementation. Negotiations are currently in progress to debate these goals. The aim is to reach agreement and put them into effect at the World Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China, at the end of the year, on condition that the coronavirus pandemic allows such a conference to be staged. The meeting is also known as “COP15” because it is the 15^th “Conference of the Parties” to the UN Convention on Biodiversity.