Dear all,
Please see the EC NbS Update email below featuring some of your input that goes out to 80+ policy makers on the EC level and NbS experts.
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Goodmorning J
The NbS and biodiversity community is as active as ever. Many opportunities to explore, events & webinars to attend, and relevant publications have come out. We would like to highlight in particular the Biodiversa+ transnational joint research call on Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and society !
Opportunities
· Biodiversa+, the European Biodiversity Partnership under Horizon Europe, has launched a new transnational joint research call on the following topic: Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and society. This call covers the following three non-exclusive research themes: 1) Innovation and harmonisation of methods and tools for collection and management of biodiversity monitoring data, 2) Addressing knowledge gaps on biodiversity status, dynamics, and trends to reverse biodiversity loss, 3) Making use of available biodiversity monitoring data. The deadline for submitting pre-proposals is 9 November 2022 at 15:00 CET. More information about this call is available on this Biodiversa+ website. An information webinar for potential applicants will be organised on 20 September 2022, from 3:00PM to 4:30PM CEST. Register now to participate in this workshop!
· IPBES, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, will carry out a methodological assessment of the impact and dependence of business on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people (“business and biodiversity assessment”) and is currently calling for the nominations of experts and fellows to participate in the assessment. Both calls are open until 15 November 2022. More information will also be provided in an online dialogue meeting for stakeholders on 6 October 2022. Interested stakeholders are invited to register for the meeting by 30 September 2022 using the link included in the IPBES notification.
· Online public consultation on new EU framework for forest monitoring and strategic plans, as foreseen in the EU Forest Strategy for 2030. The aim is to develop an EU-wide forest observation framework to provide open access to detailed, accurate, regular and timely information on the condition and management of EU forests - until 17 November 2022.
· Online public consultation on the development of a possible EU Soil Health Law. Sustainable soil management and restoration requires the involvement of a wide range of economic and societal actors and all interested parties are invited to contribute to the consultation - util 24 October 2022.
· The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is launching a new call for best practices to collect and promote low-carbon and sustainable projects as well as climate commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from local and regional authorities across the EU. Reforestation and urban greening or climate adaptation and mitigation are included, among others, as focus areas.
· New call for EIP-AGRI Focus Group experts now open until 19.09.2022! The topics to be covered by the three new Focus Groups are: (1) Enhancing the biodiversity on farmland through high-diversity landscape features, (2) Social farming and innovations and (3) Recovery of abandoned agricultural lands.
· Embracing our mistakes, instead of trying to hide them, can help us, and others working with co-creation, to learn, grow and improve. H2020 project The Edible Cities Network invites you to share your experiences with co-creation - the failures, errors and mistakes - via their public survey.
Events & webinars
· This September, H2020 project The Edible Cities Network will be welcoming project partners and the public to Visit the EdiCitNet Living Labs in urban farms across Europe.
· Save the date and register your place at the 1st Cities Talk Nature Europe event “Nature, places, people” in Krakow on 21 & 22 September 2022 in the framework of the H2020 Interlace project.
· Free proGIreg MOOC: Nature-based Urban Regeneration commences 3rd October. Join the course to learn about nature-based solutions for urban revival.
· H2020 project JUSTNature will present at the 58th ISOCARP World Planning Congress “From Wealthy to Healthy Cities”, hosted by brussels capital region on 3-6 october 2022, in Brussels
· H2020 project CLEVER Cities is hosting its third UrbanByNature Latin America Hub webinar: Commit and Plan. The event will take place October 6: 9-10 (English, Spanish, and Portuguese).
· Next project meeting will be in Greece (Chania) for the JUSTNature project from 10-14 October 2022 present the project’s main tools, handbooks, reports
· Malmö, Sweden, a partner in the H2020 project CLEVER Cities, will present their work integrating Nature-based Solutions into their city plans at the upcoming Launch of the Urban Greening Plans at the European Week of Regions and Cities October 13: 11:30-13:00.
· Registrations to the GrowGreen Final Event are open! The event will take place in Brest (France) on 8 and 9 November and will provide opportunities to engage in discussions on how to scale up NbS, exploring strategy development processes, innovative planning, governance and financing. More information and registration here.
· Podcast: Beating the heat: Europe prepares for climate change impacts. The latest episode of Green Deal - Big Deal, a podcast series dedicated to the European Green Deal, discusses the EU Adaptation Strategy and possibilities that nature-based solutions offer to help us cope with challenges such as heat and flooding - featuring interviews with INTERLACE and REACHOUT researchers.
· JUSTNature team will participate with its stand in the Science In the City Festival in Malta delivering tangible and memorable hands-on activities and experiments on climate change, environmental awareness, smart traffic systems, greener cities including interactive heat map of Malta, colouring activities to help kids recognising what is bad and good for our environment, planting activities and others about biodiversity and air quality.
Publications & tools
· The H2020 project UNaLab has launched its Replication Framework ‘Urban Nature Labs’, which presents the project's resources, activities and experiences to inspire other cities to adopt nature-based solutions and provide guidance along the journey.
· In its five summary documents of key resources for the adoption of nature-based solutions, the H2020 project UNaLab presents its main tools, handbooks, reports, lessons learnt and experiences that can be used by existing and potential NbS planners, designers, implementers and end-users in the different phases of an NbS project.
· URBAN GreenUP ‘When Nature Came Back to the Cities’ pageflow news is out. Through these digital pages you will be able to discover the story of the URBAN GreenUP project and ways to tackle #environmental issues by implementing #NatureBasedSolutions and raising awareness among the citizens
We hope to meet you at the Network Nature annual event next week.
Take care,
Sofie
Sofie Vandewoestijne
Project Adviser