The Gjærevoll Centre

– A Centre for Foresight Analyses of Biodiversity

Our earth is under enormous pressure. We are heading full speed into a climate crisis, and it is urgent to reduce the planet's carbon emissions. While we work to find solutions to the climate crisis, the world is experiencing a dramatic loss of biodiversity. The species' habitats are disappearing quietly, almost unnoticeably. Up to one million species are in danger of disappearing for good.

The nature crisis is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, experts call it. We can also call it a loss of nature's benefits for people. The nature that is disappearing is the same nature that we humans and all other species depend on in order to live. It ensures that we have water, oxygen and food, as well as medicines, materials - and good experiences!

And not only that: Preserving nature is the best way to reduce climate change, because nature captures and stores more than half of all the carbon we emit. Nature and climate are mutually affected by one another. The climate crisis and the nature crisis must be solved together and at the same time.

The Gjærevoll Centre will contribute to this, by bringing together world-leading researchers in the field of biodiversity and sustainability in an interdisciplinary effort to contribute to stop the global nature crisis.