Upcoming events

The Belgian Biodiversity Platform, together with the European Commission, is happy to invite you to the seventh edition of its Biodiversity X-Mas Market (formerly known as the BEES Market; previous editions here and here). After a year of cancellations and postponed events, let’s meet again face-to-face!

This edition of the X-Mas Market will have a particular focus on the upcoming changes in the EU landscape of Biodiversity policy, governance and funding. [Read more…] about 7th Biodiversity X-Mas Market

In this National Ecosystem Services Partnership (NESP) webinar, Justin Johnson (University of Minnesota) will present recent work completed with the World Bank that lays out a new model, GTAP-InVEST, that links a computable general equilibrium model from the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) with an ecosystem services model, Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), to assess important sustainability challenges. Modeling the interaction between nature’s services and the global economy to 2030, this talk will discuss a range of policy scenarios available to reduce the impact of nature’s loss on economies. [Read more…] about NESP October Webinar: Global Earth-Economy Modeling: Linking GTAP and InVEST to address sustainability challenges

PROGRAMME 16 SEPTEMBER 2021

Within the Interreg 2 Seas project PROWATER we use nature and its ecosystems to tackle the environmental challenges that climate change presents, such as regular and prolonged drought and flood periods. This approach to climate adaptation is known as Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA). While a lot of these measures need to be taken on private land, there is a lack of incentives and instruments to facilitate their implementation. EbA measures also have the potential to deliver many other ecosystem services beside climate adaptation. We consider Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) as a viable option to provide such incentives at a larger scale. We have explored PES examples and identified their strengths and weaknesses. [Read more…] about Webinar 16 September 2021 HOW TO INCENTIVISE NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS?