8th Global Nitrogen Conference 2020 | International Nitrogen Initiative | 3 May 2020 | VIRTUAL EVENT

The 8th conference of the International Nitrogen Initiative will be the meeting point for scientists from all over the world who are dealing with reactive nitrogen compounds in agriculture, industry, traffic, soil, water and air. It will be the place to exchange results, ideas and visions to improve future holistic management of reactive nitrogen in order to further reduce hunger and poverty and at the same time avoid further hazards for human health, biodiversity and environmental media. It will be a perfect opportunity to engage with important policy makers and other relevant stakeholders. A joint conference declaration based on the latest scientific knowledge might stimulate further policy action towards effective integrated nitrogen management.

INI conferences are held every three years on different continents. After the first conference in the Netherlands in 1998, INI 2020 is the first time it will be coming back to Europe: To Germany, the place where about 100 years ago scientists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch invented industrial ammonia fixation, a major source of today’s reactive nitrogen circulating through the biosphere.

At INI 2020, scientists and delegates are invited to present findings on
• Sustainable agriculture, food and nutrition systems, in relation to effective nitrogen management,
• threats for health, environment and biodiversity and solutions to combat these nitrogen-driven effects,
• Observations of global challenges, nitrogen fluxes and interactions between different drivers and pressure,
• closing the nitrogen cycle through innovations for sustainable N management and
• Integrated nitrogen science and policy approaches.

2020 Speakers

Prof. Dr. Tapan Kumar Adhya
Director, South Asia Nitrogen Centre, New Delhi

Dr. Vincent Aduramigba-Modupe
Africa Centre Director, International Nitrogen Initiative

Dr. Heike Bach
Founder and CEO, VISTA

Dr. Belay Begashaw
Director General, The Sustainable Development Goals Center for Africa (SDGC/A)

Dr. Achim Dobermann
Chief Scientist, International Fertilizer Association (IFA), Paris, France

Anna Engleryd
Senior Policy advisor, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

Dr. Jessica Fanzo
Associate Professor, Global Food and Agriculture Policy and Ethics, Berman Institute of Bioethics

Prof. Dr. Bretislav Friedrich
Head of research group, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin

Dr. Emile A. Frison
Member, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems

Asst. Prof. Dr. David Kanter
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU

Dirk Messner
Head, German Environment Agency (UBA)

Dr. Barbara Navé
Lab Team Leader and Project Manager, BASF

Prof. Dr. Annette Peters
Director, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München

Prof. Dr. N Raghuram
Chair, International Nitrogen Initiative

Professor Dr. Johan Rockström
Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Svenja Schulze
Federal Minister, Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany

Prof. Dr. Josef Settele
Research Scientist, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research

Dr. Carly Stevens
Plant ecologist and Soil biogeochemist, Lancaster University

Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Taube

Dr. Norbert Taubken
Business Director, Scholz & Friends Reputation

Prof. Dr. Harold van Es
Professor, Soil Science, Cornell University

Prof. Dr. Maren Voss
Leibniz-Institut, Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde, Germany

Prof. Guohua Xu
Senior professor, Plant nutrition and fertilization

Prof. Dr. Chaoqing Yu
Chief scientist, AI-for-Earth Lab

Prof. Dr. Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern
Professor, Soil Science and Soil Microbiology

Asst. Prof. Dr. Xin Zhang
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science