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Apply for the Edible Cities Network Awards 2022

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20 October 2022

Are you part of an initiative trying to create a more sustainable urban food system ? Or do you know such an initiative that deserves international recognition? This could be an urban gardening project , a community kitchen , an urban beehive , or anything else that uses food to help make our...

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Help shape the NbS R&I Roadmap for Europe!

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6 October 2022

How can Research & Innovation help achieve EU goals for NbS development and deployment? Have your say and help shape the European Research & Innovation Roadmap for Nature-based solutions .

NetworkNature is facilitating the development of the EU R&I Roadmap for Nature-based...

Don’t miss this EWRC workshop on EU Nature Restoration Law

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4 October 2022

The 20th edition of the European Week of Regions and Cities (EWRC), the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to cohesion policy, is drawing near. This year’s EWRC will take place in-person on 10-13 October 2022.

Event sessions sit under the overarching theme “New challenges for...

Three cities chosen for CLEARINGHOUSE exchange and peer support for urban forests as nature-based solutions

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27 September 2022

What do Belo Horizonte, Bogotá and Mexico City have in common, apart from being vibrant metropolises to live in?

They have all been selected in the first call of the CLEARING HOUSE knowledge exchange mechanism, meant to promote capacity development and knowledge exchange on urban forests...

Introducing the NetworkNature Nordic hub

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26 September 2022

The NetworkNature Nordic hub launch is fast approaching. On 13 October, the Nordic hub will bring together organisations, associations, companies, researchers, professionals and others who work with nature-based solutions in the Nordic region.The purpose of this and other nature-based solutions...

Take part in this exciting webinar on Public Procurement of Nature-based Solutions

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22 September 2022

How we finance Nature-based Solutions is just as important than the co-creation of these solutions themselves. This is why stakeholders from the spheres of the NbS and Public Procurement communities are coming together to deliver a session to help public procurers gain more understanding on...

WHO releases new courses for capacity building in Environment and Health

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16 August 2022

As a part of the WHO Bonn Environment and Health School , the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health is offering two online courses to support capacity building of experts working in the health and environment field in 2022. The two courses are:

Health impact assessment (HIA)...

JUSTNature project - Shaping communities for a just, sustainable world

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18 July 2022

Human activities have already triggered a rise in the earth’s surface temperatures. To reduce the damage from climate change, a transition to a low-carbon society is urgently needed. At the moment, environmental resources are distributed unevenly. As a result, wealthy regions benefit from better...

NetworkNature Factsheet: Seizing opportunities for ecosystem restoration to tackle societal challenges

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18 July 2022

Are you a practitioner directly involved in, or thinking of starting, a restoration project but would like to find out more about what types of benefits can be achieved and what actions can best support effective restoration? This factsheet is for you!

This factsheet explores the...

Networknature workshop: The way towards high quality NbS and standards - What we learned so far

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14 July 2022

NetworkNature highlights a timely topic in the nature-based solutions field with its semester themes, identified in consultation with the nature-based solutions community.

The current NetworkNature semester theme is about ' Nature-based solutions and Standards ', covering quality aspects...