Annual Report 2019

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For a sustainable future

The University of Bern shapes the UN Global Sustainable Development Report completed in 2019 and founds the Wyss Academy for Nature.

Key Area

Sustainability

A world free of poverty where the well-being of each and every person is ensured: This goal, which forms part of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda, can only be achieved if the relationship between people and nature is fundamentally changed. That is the conclusion of the UN Global Sustainable Development Report, drafted by an independent group of experts co-chaired by Professor Peter Messerli of the University of Bern and Endah Murniningtyas from Indonesia.

The University of Bern and its partners also want to contribute to a sustainable future: With the Wyss Academy for Nature, a globally leading research and implementation center in the field of nature and people has been set up.

More on the UN Global Sustainable Development Report and the Wyss Academy

Further stories

Special Report IPCC

Heat waves in the sea

The oceans, glaciers and permafrost soils will change significantly with climate change in the course of this century. This is a fact illustrated by the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from September 2019, to which Thomas Frölicher and Carolina Adler from the University of Bern contributed as lead authors.

Climate expertise – made in Bern

The climate is warming faster than it has in the last 2,000 years

In contrast to pre-industrial climate fluctuations, current, anthropogenic climate change is occurring across the whole world at the same time. In addition, the speed of global warming is higher than it has been in at least 2,000 years. That’s according to two studies from the University of Bern.

First global assessment report IPBES

Biodiversity disappears

According to a warning issued in May 2019 by the World Biodiversity Council (IPBES) in its first global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services, between 0.5 and 1 million of the world’s approximately 8 million plant and animal species are at risk of extinction. Several researchers from Bern collaborated on this report, some of them assuming leading positions.

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