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Chronic land degradation: UN offers stark warnings and practical remedies in Global Land Outlook 2

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29 April 2022

UNCCD’s evidence-based flagship Global Land Outlook 2 (GLO2) report, five years in development with 21 partner organizations, and with over 1,000 references, is the most comprehensive consolidation of information on the topic assembled.

It offers an overview of the breadth and projects...

How keen and ready is business for nature-related financial disclosure?

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28 April 2022

The financial community is getting to grips with its pivotal and expanding role as a key driver of our sustainable future. Realities – such as half of global gross domestic product being dependant on nature and therefore vulnerable to spiraling nature loss– are sinking in, and awareness of and...

See the new Global Youth Nature-based Solutions position statement

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20 April 2022

Youth around the world are voicing their stances on a wide set of environmental issues, including recent engagement on Nature-based solutions (NbS). During the course of the European Year of Youth , dedicated young leaders for climate and nature produced an position paper on Nature-based...

Call for Papers and Practitioners Innovation Presentations at Open Living Lab Days

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19 April 2022

OpenLivingLab Days (OLLD) is the annual global gathering of Living Labs organized by the European Network of Living Labs. This year, the event will be held in Turin, Italy, between 20-23 September . Hosted and co-organised by the City of Turin , CTE NEXT – The...

CLEARING HOUSE Opens its Knowledge Exchange Mechanism!

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19 April 2022

The CLEARING HOUSE project announces its first knowledge exchange mechanism.

The global objective of the knowledge exchange mechanism is to promote capacity development and exchange of knowledge and practices on urban forests as nature-based solutions (UF-NbS), based on peer-to-peer...

Restoring the planet through nature education for the leaders of the future

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11 April 2022

The foundation for upscaling the use of Nature-based Solutions lies in creating awareness and strengthening knowledge about the natural world early in life and throughout our education. While awareness of the benefits of nature for human health is spreading, there seems to be a clear need to...

Closer-to-Nature Forest Management

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11 April 2022

Closer-to-Nature Forest Management is a concept proposed in the EU Forest Strategy for 2030, which aims to improve the conservation values and climate resilience of multifunctional, managed forests in Europe. Building on the latest scientific evidence, a new From Science to Policy study from EFI...

New UNCCD Urban-Rural Linkages and Ecosystem Restoration Paper Released

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7 April 2022

This new working paper from the UN proposes an urban-rural linkage perspective in relation to land and ecosystem restoration at a time of heightened urgency on multiple fronts at local, national and international levels. The combined impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss land degradation...

Call for NbS Projects

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6 April 2022

In the framework of a market assessment project conducted on behalf of the European Investment Bank (EIB) on the topic of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) financing, Bankers without Boundaries is collecting information of currently existing projects at the EU level.

This project aims at...

Request for Proposals - Nature+ Accelerator Fund

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5 April 2022

Mirova the affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers dedicated to responsible investing, is the manager of the Nature+ Accelerator Fund. Mirova and its partners, IUCN, the biggest scientific organisation in nature, and CPIC, the world’s largest coalition for conservation finance, have joined...