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IPBES Values Assessment – Global ESP Expert Workshops

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In the spirit of inclusion and diversity, please consider reviewing how IPBES describes methods for assessing how values and valuation link people, nature and decision making.

The Ecosystem Services Partnership is pleased to announce a global series of workshops to mobilize the global expert community in contributing reviews for the second order draft of the IPBES assessment on values of Nature.

This series of workshops is spread through the global time zones and will be hosted by regional ESP representatives, but open to anybody interested in reviewing the assessment. [Read more…] about IPBES Values Assessment – Global ESP Expert Workshops

TEEBAgriFood for Business – upcoming roundtable events

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Several events will be held in relation to the TEEBAgriFood for Business project.

This year the project will focus on India, China and Indonesia. To start off activities in those countries, the project will firstly organise roundtables to run consultations on the TEEBAgriFood Operational Guidelines for Business. The aim is to bring together key stakeholders to discuss the need for food system transformation and best practices. The participants will have the opportunity to learn, provide comments, and input into the development process. [Read more…] about TEEBAgriFood for Business – upcoming roundtable events

Payment for Ecosystem Services: Forest for Water – final conference

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The COST Action PESFOR-W will hold a final conference on 17-18 March 2021, online. The aim of the PESFOR W COST Action is to synthesize knowledge, provide guidance and encourage collaborative research to improve Europe’s capacity to use Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) to achieve Water Framework Directive (WFD) targets & other policy objectives through incentives for planting woodlands to reduce agricultural diffuse pollution to watercourses.

Find out more about it in the event flyer.

You can register here.

Mind submitting abstract to session T14 about Green Infrastructures, next ESP Europe meeting in Tartu

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Hi Everyone, I would like to invite you to submit abstract for the session I’m co-hosting during the coming ESP Europe meeting in Tartu, T14 – Recent Advances in green and blue infrastructure ecosystem services and disservices.

From rural to urban spaces
Our session aims to present recent research results regarding GBI, their ecological characteristics, functions and the ecosystem services they deliver in different context, but also to address the policyscapes and stakeholder interactions controlling their management and planning, as well as the integration of citizens interests, preferences and participation regarding GBI, through CS actions. [Read more…] about Mind submitting abstract to session T14 about Green Infrastructures, next ESP Europe meeting in Tartu

ReNature 2nd Interdisciplinary Training School – Planning Nature-based Solutions in Cities

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The ReNature project has just launched an open call for participation in the ReNature 2nd Interdisciplinary Training School on Nature-based Solutions. The training school will take place 15-18 March 2021.

The ReNature 2nd Interdisciplinary Training School aims to provide participants with an understanding of the opportunities to mainstream nature-based solutions in urban planning and to design nature-based solutions that provide co-benefits to biodiversity and ecosystem services, leading to an improvement in human well-being. [Read more…] about ReNature 2nd Interdisciplinary Training School – Planning Nature-based Solutions in Cities