An international research team led by the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) also concludes in the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, that restoring land spared from livestock production when meat and dairy products are replaced with plant-based alternatives could provide additional climate and biodiversity benefits, more than doubling climate benefits and halving future declines in ecosystem integrity by 2050. The restored area could contribute up to 25% of the estimated global land restoration needs by 2030.
Berlin: Future technologies for the industrial bioeconomy
As part of its bioeconomy research funding programme, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) aims to combine biotechnology with other promising future fields. These include artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, computer science and engineering. This is because innovations and disruptive developments are increasingly emerging at the boundaries between disciplines.