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This theme focuses on how Nature-based Solutions (NbS) support biodiversity enhancement and ecosystem restoration while addressing multiple societal challenges that humans are facing and providing multiple environmental, social, and economic benefits. It emphasizes the use of NbS to help bring diverse and resilient nature back to all ecosystems, restore their equilibrium and protect the planet for future generations.
The theme revolves around leveraging NbS to enhance biodiversity and restore ecosystems. It focuses on harnessing the power of nature to tackle societal challenges, while conserving and restoring biodiversity and ensuring ecosystem integrity, increasing the resilience against climate change impacts, and providing environmental, social and economic benefits. Following proper approaches to design, implementation and upscaling, NbS can be cost-efficient and bring about new economic opportunities and green jobs, enhance air quality, support sustainable water management, increase social justice, social cohesion and the population health and well-being, among other benefits.
The theme is aimed at a broad audience, including national and EU-level policymakers, local and subnational governments, public authorities, educators, educational institutions, students, nature-based solution investors, (nature-based) entrepreneurs, natural resource managers, landowners, infrastructure planners and developers and society at large. It's designed to leave no one behind by inclusively engaging all groups of society to raise awareness about NbS and the importance of their implementation and upscaling to achieve environmental, social and economic benefits and addressing global societal challenges to meet society’s needs.
The importance of this theme lies in its focus on NbS as critical, innovative and effective approach for restoring ecosystems and safeguarding biodiversity. NbS support the delivery of goods and services from ecosystems, therefore strongly depend on their health.
Familiarise yourself with EU Policy Instruments on biodiversity enhancement and ecosystem restoration
- Nature Restoration Regulation
- EU Habitats and Birds Directives and the Natura 2000 network
- EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
- Forest Strategy for 2030
- EU Pollinators Initiative
- Marine Strategy Framework Directive
- Maritime Spatial Planning Directive
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