BAMBOO Biodiversity and trade: mitigating the impacts of non-food biomass
BAMBOO is a project with partners in the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Peru and Tanzania. The project aims to improve the tools to assess the impacts of international trade of non-food biomass on biodiversity, to help policymakers, retailers and other stakeholders to assess and mitigate their impacts. We plan to develop models to quantify biodiversity impacts using four indicators: species richness, mean species abundance, functional diversity and ecosystem services and we will use a combination of existing models and newly developed ones. To improve the representation of trade, we will create a new, hybrid multiregional input-output (MRIO) model based on the well-known EXIOBASE and the biomass-specific FABIO models. The project will start in September 2022.
Website of the project: external pagehttps://bamboo-horizon.eu
This project has been funded by the external pageH2020/SERI
Collaboration
- Francesca Verones and Konstantin Stadler, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway.
- Laura Scherer, José Mogollón and Peter van Bodegom, Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University (CML), The Netherlands.
- Martin Bruckner, Vienna University, Austria.
- Alexandra Marques, Detlef van Vuuren and Aafke Schipper, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), The Netherlands.
- Ian Vazquez Rowe and Ramzy Kahhat, Pontificia Universidad Catolica Del Peru, Peru.
- Nyambilila Amuri, Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania.
- Olumide Abimbola, Africa Policy Research Private Institute gUG (APRI), Germany.