BiotopeCity: Vegetation's Impact on Cliamte
For the 50th lecture in our series, we are pleased to announce a webinar featuring a fundamentally important presentation: Dipl.-Met. Guido Halbig will highlight climate influences that are usually overlooked in climate change discussions – where the focus is almost always on reducing human-made CO₂ emissions.
CO₂ absorption by the oceans and land surfaces (especially soils and forests) plays a decisive role in the global warming of the atmosphere. They store CO₂. This is known in principle.
However, if the land surface stores less CO₂ – for example, due to deforestation and increasing sealing – temperatures still can continue to rise even if human-made CO₂ emissions decline.
This also raises the question of CO₂'s effect on plants at rising temperatures: Is CO₂ a turbo for plant growth? How does the ratio of photosynthesis to plant respiration change, and how much CO₂ is stored net?
Date: Tuesday, March 10 2026, 17.00 Uhr
weiterführende Infos sind zu finden unter: www.biotope-city.net
Vortragender: Dipl.-Met. Guido W. Halbig
This lecture series is a cooperation between the Foundation Biotopes City, the Institute for Landscape Planning (ILAP) and the Institute of Engineering Biology and Landscaping (IBLB) of the BOKU University.
Zoom link:
https://bokuvienna.zoom.us/j/67848465261?pwd=RktrL2M5VzR0SDdaNmFTMlRjUGs3Zz09
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Please make a note in your agenda of the following lectures:
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 17.00 hrs:
Bosco Verticale in Social Housing, Martijn Verberne, Marlou de Win und Rob Thijssen (This lecutre will be held in Englisch)