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The Rewards of Nature Restoration: Will the new EU law deliver?

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24 March 2022

Mario Balzán

The Rewards of Nature Restoration webinar organised by BirdLife Europe , the Endangered Landscapes Programme and UNEP-WCMC has aimed to showcase what has already been done in nature restoration and to inspire people to do more. The participants of the webinar were people...

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New Tool: Reforest Better!

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24 March 2022

Currently many well intended forest restoration and tree planting measures, are not designed with longevity and biodiversity in mind. To help develop more sustainable and holistic measures Nature4Climate, Hamerkop, Trillion Trees, WWF, WCS, Birdlife International and 1T.org have developed a new...

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Business training course ‘Valuing nature and people to inform business decision-making’ launched

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24 March 2022

A unique new online business course developed by the Capitals Coalition supported by We Value Nature has launched.

The free course, ‘ Valuing nature and people to inform business decision-making' , comes in response to an increased demand from businesses and the finance sector for the...

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Join the The European Commission Mission Adaptation to Climate Change!

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21 March 2022

The European Commission has today launched an invitation to EU regions and communities to join the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change.

The Mission’s objective is to support 150 regions and communities to accelerate their transformation towards climate resilience by helping them...

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Urban Governance Atlas: Call for contributions

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18 March 2022

This is a guest article from McKenna Davis, Ecologic Institute

Exciting news: We are developing an Urban Governance Atlas for nature-based solutions as part of the INTERLACE project … and we want you to be a part of it ! The Urban Governance Atlas (UGA) will be an interactive online...

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World Urban Parks: Open call for Emerging Urban Leaders

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14 March 2022

In light of the global pandemic, the ways in which urban populations’ relate to and interact with green and blue spaces have changed, increasing demands for urban nature worldwide. This too increases possibilities and potential opportunities for nature based solutions to make lasting impacts in...

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United Nations Environment Assembly agree nature-based solutions definition

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10 March 2022

The 5 th UN Environment Assembly concluded with 14 resolutions to strengthen actions for nature to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Among the resolutions is a multilaterally agreed definition of nature-based solutions and a call to UNEP to support the implementation of such...

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NetworkNature call for experts: nature-based solutions standards and quality!

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8 March 2022

NetworkNature is launching a call for its semester on nature-based solutions standards . NetworkNature semesters cover timely issues in the nature-based solutions (NbS) field, to gather, share knowledge and raise awareness on the topic together with the wider nature-based solutions community....

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“Sharing Experiences of Ecosystem Restoration” workshop-experiences, commitments and actions

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4 March 2022

In light of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and as part of the current semester theme , ICLEI , an official partner of the UN Decade, via NetworkNature organised a workshop to share international experiences on ecosystem restoration as a nature-based solution. The workshop...

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IUCN's Community Toolkit

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22 February 2022

This toolkit provided by the IUCN equips people with the tools, knowledge, and resources necessary to restore ecosystems back to productive and healthy spaces. Readers are shown examples of the importance of community organizing, potential aspects of projects, successful examples of community...

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