SAVE THE DATE – Third webinar on The economics of Nature-based Solutions: opportunities for the Mediterranean coastal wetlands

BACKGROUND
Coastal wetlands provide a range of benefits -ecosystem services- to our daily lives and protect biodiversity. For example, they enable fish and salt production, support bird habitats, and contribute to improve water and soil quality and to capture and sequester carbon. Yet, they remain largely misunderstood, especially when it comes to their contribution to local economies and social development.

With the new targets currently being defined at global level such as the SDGs, the Aichi targets, the EU Green Deal as well as the post-2020 Biodiversity framework, governments will be urged to apply measures that recreate resilience and increase benefits to people. In this context, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in coastal wetlands offer a perfect example of economic development based on natural resources which can be preserved in the long term. Still, today, no common framework exists to highlight and assess the multiple interests of such solutions.

In order to help coastal wetland managers, practitioners and decision-makers to understand and implement solutions where nature and socio-economic aspects can live in harmony, a series of webinars is being organised between this autumn and next spring. The webinars will be based on pragmatic approaches with the right tools that will help you to:

1. Integrate NbS, based on cost-benefit analysis, in your management plans and land use planning;
2. Connect and build dialogues between the different local actors and sectors that take into account needs and benefits for all;
3. (Re-)Create a sustainable balance between human needs and natural resources availabilities in your country/region.

14 june 2022, 02:00 PM (Bruxelles Time)

Registration

Please register, before the 10th of June, through this LINK.

Contact

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Naima CROTTI at: Naima.Crotti@birdlife.org