Bonn, Germany — At the invitation of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Liu Chunyan, Party Committee Secretary and Vice President of the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES), led a delegation to Germany from December 1 to 5, 2025, to attend the 14th Sino-German Workshop on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
Hosted by BfN, this year’s workshop centered on the theme “Environmental and Earth Observation to Policy: Integrated Monitoring for Biodiversity and Climate”. The event served as a platform to advance dialogue on environmental monitoring technologies and to strengthen collaborative efforts in addressing biodiversity conservation and climate change.
On behalf of CRAES, Ms.Liu delivered opening remarks at the ceremony. She highlighted that over the past seventeen years, the workshop has continued to grow and remained effective even during the pandemic. Noting the fruitful recent exchanges between China and Germany in combating climate change and biodiversity loss, she expressed hope for further deepened and expanded cooperation. Such collaboration, she stated, will support the implementation of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and other related international environmental agreements.
During the workshop, the CRAES delegation delivered thematic presentations covering China’s climate and biodiversity monitoring system, biodiversity observation practices in Beijing, monitoring climate change impacts on migratory bird pathways, biodiversity dynamics in grassland restoration, and China’s progress in implementing the Kunming–Montreal Framework. The presentations outlined China’s latest achievements in biodiversity conservation and sparked substantive exchanges with participants.
During the workshop, Ms.Liu held discussions with Thomas Graner, Vice President of the BfN. Both sides reviewed seventeen years of cooperation and explored future priorities. They agreed to further strengthen their partnership, reaching preliminary consensus on the following areas: revising and renewing their Memorandum of Understanding;co-hosting side events at meetings under the Convention on Biological Diversity; enhancing academic exchanges through the Sino-German Workshop and the Global Young Leaders Dialogue; expanding cooperation in environmental science popularization.
The Sino-German Workshop on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services was jointly launched by CRAES and BfN in 2008, and has since been held alternately by the two institutions. In 2014, the workshop was incorporated into the China–Germany Joint Program of Action on Cooperation: Shaping Innovation Together.
The workshop brought together around 30 experts and representatives from institutions including CRAES, the Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences(MEE), Nankai University, BfN, The Deutscher Wetterdienst, the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Karlsruhe University of Technology, the International Union for Conservation of Nature , and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, among others.
