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City Finance Lab opens its first call for ideas

21 June 2018

The City Finance Lab (CFL), a joint venture between EIT Climate-KIC and South Pole, has opened its first call for cutting edge climate finance solutions for cities.

Selected ideas will be announced in early September and will receive guidance to develop and improve their proposals from...

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Wroclaw creates space for nature-based solutions to improve quality of life

18 May 2018

The city of Wroclaw in Poland is one of the frontrunner cities of the GrowGreen project, which is creating new high quality green spaces in order to demonstrate how nature can contribute to improving the local climate, urban water management and air quality. Green roofs, green walls and pocket...

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Municipality of Sluis, the Netherlands: newly developed tidal nature in combination with recreation and coastal defense at Waterdunen project

New paper: Benefit-to-cost ratios of wetland and reef restoration

11 April 2018

'Comparing the cost effectiveness of nature-based and coastal adaptation: A case study from the Gulf Coast of the United States' has recently been published in Plos One. The paper finds that wetland and reef restoration in the Gulf can yield benefit-to-cost ratios of above 3.5 on average,...

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Did you miss the OPERAs webinar 'What should the EU consider to move towards No Net Loss (NNL)'?

16 October 2017

'What should the EU consider to move towards No Net Loss (NNL)?', the fifth in the six-part series of OPERAs' webinars, took place in Thursday 12 October 2017.

You can watch the recording below or on the Oppla YouTube channel .

If you would like to ask the speakers any questions...

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Did you miss the OPERAs webinar 'How to engage citizens in applying the ecosystem services approach'?

16 October 2017

'How to engage citizens in applying the ecosystem services approach?' the sixth and final in the OPERAs' webinars, took place on Monday 16 October 2017.

You can watch the recording below or on the Oppla YouTube channel .

If you would like to ask the speakers any questions then...

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Join OPPLA at EUGIC 2017 Budapest

11 October 2017

Join OPPLA at EUGIC 2017 Budapest – book your OPPLA Member discount ticket of 200 EUR (from 300 EUR) which includes the EUGIC 2017 Awards Ceremony here: www.eugic.events/booking-form

Celebrating Nature-Based Solutions for Cities 2nd European Urban Green Infrastructure Conference 29-30...

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Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials - Work Programme 2018-2020

10 October 2017

Funding opportunities under Horizon 2020 are set out in Work Programmes, which set out support available for research and innovation. A pre-publication version of the 2018-20 Work Programme for Societal Challenge 5 "Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials" has been...

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Did you miss the OPERAs webinar - How do you take into account trade-offs between ecosystem services in land management decision making?

2 October 2017

'How do you take into account trade-offs between ecosystem services in land management decision making?', the fourth in the six-part series of OPERAs' webinars, took place in Monday 2 October 2017.

You can watch the recording below or on the Oppla YouTube channel .

If you would...

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Did you miss the OPERAs webinar - How to link ecosystem services knowledge, tools and practice?

13 September 2017

'How to link ecosystem services knowledge, tools and practice?', the first in the six-part series of OPERAs' webinars, took place in Monday 11th September 2017.

You can watch the recording below or on the Oppla YouTube channel .

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GreenInUrbs, Green Infrastructure and Nature Based Solutions video

29 August 2017

'Green Infrastructure: Nature Based Solutions for Sustainable and Resilient Cities' was GreenInUrbs final conference, held in Orvieto, April 2017.

The video shows highlights from the Conference and extracts from some of the interviews with leading speakers.

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