Embrapa Soils' (Rio de Janeiro, RJ) international team, with the support of Labex Europe (Embrapa's laboratory in the continent), led the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), a renowned German research institution who had Einstein among its professionals. The cooperation includes the areas of natural resources, climate change and land use change; new sciences like biotechnnology, nanotechnology and geotechnology; automation, precision agriculture and information technology; agroindustry, biomass technology in the context of sustainable development, food security, etc. “PIK is a research institute funded by the German government that assesses crucial issues in global climate change, climate impacts and sustainable development. In addition, it is a protagonist at the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), where it coordinates the working group on Climate Change Mitigation”, stresses the international negotiator and Embrapa Soils researcher Margareth Simões. Margareth recounts that the first contact with PIK was in a project funded by the European Commission, “The Role of Biodiversity in Climate Change”, in the period when she was at Labex Europe. Such partnership has intensified in the course of the years and facilitated the submission of a new project, Biodiversity for the Future (Biodiv4Future), to the German Federak Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). With this study, Embrapa, PIK and several institutions intend to generate metrics for the Brazilian Cerrado. "The association with PIK entails partnering to seek metrics for the environment in order to enhance the use of natural resources for sustainability in the bioeconomy, of which agriculture, livestock and planted forests are essential parts”, Margareth adds. “PIK has a team of international researchers who investigate ecosystems' capacity to withstand anthropogenic action and offer options and conducts for sustainable development”, states the researcher Pedro Machado, Labex Europe's coordinator. "The Institute is part of a global network of research and education institutions working in themes working in themes related to global climate change and this partnership is important for Embrapa". PIK is deemed to be a top think tank in environmental issues, as a member of the Leibniz Association, whose institutions develop important studies for society. Translation: Mariana Medeiros