Nature-based solutions resources

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Enhancing Additionality Assessment of Carbon Credit of Various Interventions by Utilizing Site-Specific Historical Data in Compliance with IPCC International Standards

In carbon credit additionality projects, precise quantification methods are crucial to prevent incorrect estimations. The project activities and results demonstrated that active forest management generates additionality and, consequently, carbon credits.

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Group Certification for Sustainable Forest Management: Promoting Shared Forest Management and Ecosystem Services Enhancement

This certification is proof of the possibility of overcoming territorial fragmentation for a common objective by uniting public and private forces.

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Training for Forest Operators in Intervention Techniques to Enhance Carbon Credit Generation

This empowered them to become self-sufficient in executing specific interventions in the designated GO CO2MARCHE project area and equipped them for future additionality projects in other regions.

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Training for Forest Technicians, Researchers, and Employees on Fundraising and Communication Topics as Assets for Ecosystem Services Enhancement Projects.

The sale of sustainability credits and payment for ecosystem services, other than the traditional sale of timber, is an important objective and can be improved thanks to a good communication strategy and empowering specific communication skills.

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Developing a Novel Martelloscope for Assessing Biodiversity and Growing Stock Volume with the aid of a Digital Twin.

Monitoring and quantifying biodiversity variation through silvicultural choices made with the marteloscope adds significant value to sustainable forest management, enhancing ecosystem services and production aspects.

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A User-Friendly Platform for Bridging the Gap between Carbon Credit Demand and Supply

OG CO2.S.MARCHE developed a platform for voluntary sustainability credit exchange, promoting the advantages of forest certification aligned with Sustainable Forest Management principles.

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Decisional Support System to support the revision of forest management plans

OG FORTRACK utilized spatial methods to quantify carbon stock, biomass, and forest types, creating a Decision Support System that facilitates report generation and lowers costs for forest managers.

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Using UAV photogrammetric data to support multi-objective forest management plans

In Italy and Europe, there is a growing demand for forest and agroforestry companies to prioritize multifunctionality and certification. The first step involves obtaining spatial data to derive multifunctionality indicators for developing multi-objective management plans.

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Innovative tools for collaborative forest management

Enhance forest management through understanding the forest resources, identifying conditions for resource mobilization and by knowledge sharing among stakeholders for multi-partner forest management.

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Group management trial

A regional approach in Normandy based on experiments in grouped public private forest management, and common tools for consultation between the various organisations involved

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Technology at the service of forest renewal - Mapping with drone and GPS to stake out the stand

Develop plantation management methods that meet the social and environmental expectations : a new mapping and staking method, based on the use of a drone and a centimetre-accurate GPS.

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Innovative tool to reduce the arduousness of technical planting operations: the redesigned planting pickaxe

Develop plantation management methods that meet the social and environmental expectations : characteristics of the planting tool to improve ergonomics and optimise the efficiency of the actions carried out by the operator

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Assessment of the drudgery of work during the planting phase

Plantation management methods that meet the social and environmental expectations : identifying the phases of work carried out and to assess the arduousness of each of them, in order to target possible recommendations

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Pine Wood Nematode

This project aimed to overcome the constraints caused by PWD, combining new forms of forest management, methods of early detection of infected trees and decrease their impact.

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Questionnaire for the assessment of the willingness to pay for cultural-tourist ecosystem services

The evaluation was conducted using a dual approach: first, by assessing the importance of various ecosystem services for users (e.g., landscape, biodiversity, etc.) with response scores ranging from 1 to 7; second, by gauging how the Monte Nerone area was perceived to respond to these services.

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Carbon accounting for PES

The economic aspect of sustainable forest management is crucial for preserving rural areas, highlighting the need to develop methods for quantifying its ecosystem services.

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Use of Bite technology for tree infusion in chestnut groves

Endotherapy offers an efficient alternative for treatments application in chestnut groves

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CASTANIBUS

Partnership to define and exchange "guidelines for the study, conservation and evaluation of chestnuts and the best type of management to obtain a quality product" thus to revitalize the "culture of chestnut cultivation" and the role of chestnut growers as "guardian of the

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Characterisation of the genetic diversity of the chestnut heritage, soil biodiversity and biofertility Emilia-Romagna

Collective effort tostudy the genetic variability of chestnut germplasm and to enhance and promote the role of the chestnut grower as a 'guardian' of biodiversity and land protection.

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GO SURF: decision support system for a participatory approach to forest management.

Decision Support Systems for Forestry (DSSF) are recognized as vital tools for implementing sustainable forest management and providing multiple ecosystem services.

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