02.06.2022
In the Frame of the Leibniz Initiative “Leibniz in the Federal Parliament (Bundestag)” associate professor Dr. Sieber, head of the working group "Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries (SusLAND)", was able to visit the politician and entrepreneur Knut Gerschau.
Mr. Geschau is member of the German Federal Parliament since 2021 (FDP). He is former chair of the Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung and state chairman of the liberal medium-sized business of Lower Saxony. The discussion focused on problems such as leakage effects and telecoupling of international trade linkages, which may contribute to the deforestation of the rainforest. A potential solution would be strengthening governance systems and assigning responsibilities to people at local level in order to better control natural resources. Advantageous and disadvantageous have been intensively discussed and a further collaboration was envisaged by all involved participants.
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Knut Gerschau (from left) and Stefan Sieber at "Leibniz in the Bundestag” | Source: © Knut Gerschau (MdB).
