Marketplace

  • Video

GrowGreen visit to Campinas: how linear parks can make a difference for people, nature and the economy

In order to strengthen engagement from political decision-makers and to create opportunities for the replication of Nature-Based Solutions (NbS), the political representatives of the GrowGreen cities were invited to participate in a virtual visit to the city of Campinas, Brazil. With more than 1

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  • Document
  • Guidance

Eliciting Demand for Ecosystem Services: Results and User Guidance from the OPERAs Demand Synthesis Working Group

Based on experience in seven of the OPERAs Exemplar case studies, we summarize what the research team has learned about working with stakeholders to elicit demand for ecosystem services and put forth an eight-step framework for doing so. Each step of the framework includes examples from the OPERAs

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  • Report

The Urban Butterfly Effect

"The Urban Butterfly Effect” a policy brief with recommendations for national governments to accelerate urban efforts to help them achieve the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) 2030 Action Targets. This policy brief is a response to the call from the Plan of Action on Subnational Governments

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  • Guidance

OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Non-monetary valuation

To increase the applicability of NMV it is necessary to clarify the boundaries and the terminology of the field, and address considerations with regard to the context-specificity of non-monetary techniques.

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  • Document

DELIVERABLE 6.1 REPORT Data on SDG/NUA impacts/potentials linked with investment propositions uploaded to OPPLA

This deliverable report presents the finding of T6.1’s research, demonstrating the yet untapped potential of NBS as policy instruments to localise sustainable development commitments and address intertwined societal challenges, from the climate and biodiversity crises to rising inequalities and

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  • Guidance

Tool for Sustainability Impact Assessment (ToSIA)

ToSIA is a decision support tool that was originally developed for the forestry sector, which analyses sustainability impacts of Forest-Wood-Chains (FWCs) and value chains related to resource use. Value chains are chains of production processes that are linked with products. ToSIA compares

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  • Infographic

Ten research findings about Nature-Based Enterprises

The first results from the Connecting Nature research survey of nature-based enterprises!

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  • Guidance

Bayesian Belief Networks

A Bayesian Belief Network (BBN) is a framework that uses a graphical representation to show the flow of information in a system. It has nodes or vertices to represent variables which can include observed quantities, latent (unobserved) quantities, expert opinion, model outputs, or unknown

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  • Document
  • Guidance

Addressing Climate Change in Cities – Policy Instruments to Promote Urban Nature-based Solutions

This guidance document responds to exisiting gaps and highlights a range of policy and supporting instruments relevant for NbS design, implementation and maintenance. Policy instruments include regulations, strategies, programmes, action plans and financial incentives. The guidance aims to support

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  • Document

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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  • Guidance

ECOMIMICRY (TURAS)

Innovative landscape design recommendations for maximising the biodiversity value of multi-functional urban green infrastructure (UGI) - designing with regional context

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GoGreenRoutes: Outline of the project presentation

Learn all about GoGreenRoutes in this introductory project presentation. Publication Date: 29 Jul 2021 Author(s): Maynooth University and ICLEI Europe

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  • Document
  • Slides

No business on a dead planet — why adopting an ambitious post-2020 GBF makes economic sense

Nature is at a tipping point. More than 1 million species are threatened by extinction 1, 75% of world’s land and 66% of the marine environment 2 are significantly altered by humans, and the temperature is expected to rise between 2.6°C and 3.9°C 3. The science is clear—the nature crisis must be

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  • Training
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INTERLACE MOOC on Nature-based Solutions: (1) INTRODUCTION to urban nature-based solutions as a tool to address global challenges.

Urban areas across the globe are facing unprecedented challenges—pollution, climate change, urban sprawl—and traditional solutions are falling short.  The INTERLACE project’s Massive Open Online Course showcases how nature-based solutions offer a promising approach to help create resilient,

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  • Paper

TRENDING SCIENCE: About 97 % of land areas have been destroyed, research claims

How many pristine places are left undisturbed by oil, gas and mining activities, as well as land development? What is the extent of this damage to habitats? According to a study published in the journal ‘Frontiers in Forests and Global Change’, nearly 3 % of the world’s land remains ecologically

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  • Software

mulino Decision Support System tool (mDSS)

The mDSS software is a generic indicator-based Decision Support System (DSS) developed to assist decision makers in the participatory management of environmental problems by applying several Multi-Criteria Analysis Methods and Group Decision Making. Specifically, it supports Decision/Policy Makers

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  • Dataset

Global Infrastructure Impact Viewer

A tool for visualising the first global database of planned road and railway infrastructure, and the risks and benefits it may pose to people and the natural world. Change the filters below to explore the data, and click on a country or project on the map for further details.

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  • Guidance

Commission on Ecosystem Management

Many of the world's ecosystems have undergone significant degradation with negative impacts on biological diversity and peoples' livelihoods. There is a growing realization that we will not be able to conserve the earth's biological diversity through the protection of critical areas

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  • Report

GrowGreen Report: Intervention Conclusions: Valencia

Within the EU-funded GrowGreen project, this report presents the challenges and results from the work in Valencia, focused on Benicalap, an area located in the north west of the city, chosen for the need for regeneration and investment. The aim of this report is to demonstrate how NbS can help

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  • Guidance

Urban Waste Management

Assessment methodology for identifying opportunities to make local urban waste management more sustainable and resilient.

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