Christine von Weizsäcker, Antje Lorch, Helena Paul and Ricarda Steinbrecher participated in the 14th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP14), 9th Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and the 3rd Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits arising from their Utilization (MOP3) in Sharm El Sheik from 15 to 29 November.

Vandana Shiva invited founding members, Beth Burrows and Christine von Weizsäcker, of Diverse Women for Diversity, 20 Years Anniversary, and they participated in several events at Navdanya and Forsest Research institute in Dehra Dun, India. Topics included GMOs, different interpretations of "ecosystem services" and Christine von Weizsäcker's lecture on “The combination of Big Data on Digital Sequence Information and Gene Editing/CRISPR-Cas”.

Christine von Weizsäcker participated as panelist on „Biodiversity Loss in spite of 25 years of CBD“ at the Expert Conference „More Courage for Multilateralism“ (Mehr Mut zum Multilateralismus) in Berlin, organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Brot für die Welt, Misereor, and the Global Policy Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung

Christine von Weizsäcker gave a public lecture on “The Role of Biodiversity – Introducing some Elements for Consideration” at Summer School „Urban Concepts in Sustainable Transition“, organized by the German Society for Human Ecology.

Christine von Weizsäcker participated in the Fostering Community Conservation Conference II, held in Montreal between the SBSTTA and SBI meetings, organized by Community Conservation Resilience Initiative and Global Forest Coalition, of which Ecoropa is a member organization.

Christine von Weizsäcker and other Ecoropa members participated in the 22nd meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technological and Technical Advice (SBSTTA 22) followed by the 2nd meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 2) in Montreal from 29 June till 13 July.
Topic included Conflict of Interest.

Christine von Weizsäcker co-organized a conference call with members of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) in preparation for SBSTTA 22.

Christine von Weizsäcker participated in European Expert Meeting in Preparation of the Twenty-second Meeting of SBSTTA in Vilm, organized by the Bundesamt für Naturschutz

Christine von Weizsäcker participated int the Meeting of the Advisory Committee of BirdLife Germany (Naturschutzbund Deutschland, NABU) in Fulda.

Interview by Christine von Weizsäcker for Zeitschrift natur on the issue of insect loss.