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Empowering youth for climate action: insights and strategies from Aalborg2024

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7 October 2024

At the Aalborg2024 conference , attended by over 500 city and regional government affiliates, the session titled "Empower Youth, Transform Tomorrow: Unleashing the Power of Youth for Climate Action" focused on amplifying youth voices in climate action. Hosted by Clotilde Mahé , a Communication...

NetworkNature joins multiple Horizon projects at COP16

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27 September 2024

NetworkNature is going to CoP16! Local and subnational government leaders from around the world, together with their key stakeholders, are invited to participate in targeted and high-level dialogues on implementation progress and the important issue of leveraging financing for, and investment in...

EU Report Highlights Nature-based Solutions as Key to Climate-Resilient Water Management

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20 September 2024

In response to the growing threat of climate change to Europe's water systems, the European Union has published an updated guidance document, River Basin Management in a Changing Climate, which calls for a shift towards nature-based solutions (NbS) to improve resilience. The publication, which...

Kicking for the Future: How Football Clubs are Creating Sustainable Urban Spaces

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19 September 2024

As the world becomes more urbanised, our cities are facing major challenges. Climate change, social inequality and the loss of green and community spaces are putting pressure on urban life around the world. Sustainability and social responsibility are becoming increasingly important, and...

Group of Chief Scientific Advisors of the European Commission: call for nominations for membership

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19 September 2024

The European Commission has launched a call for nominations for the membership of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors , the deadline for submission of nominations is on  30th September 2024 at 18:00 CET . Public European research and science organisations are invited to nominate top-level...

EURACTIV Op-Ed: Bridging the policy gap - bringing nature-based solutions to the forefront of EU strategies

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18 September 2024

Europe is set to face immense socio-ecological challenges in the coming decades, including extreme heat and flooding, with dire impacts for community health and city infrastructure. There is, however, good news: we have a powerful tool at our disposal: Nature-based Solutions (NbS). NbS use the...

New Report Shows Trees Can Help Fight Rising Heat in Arid Cities

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17 September 2024

As the world grapples with increasingly common and devastating heat waves, a new science report produced by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) shows that tree planting can be a cost-effective way to help protect communities in arid locations from the worst effects of rising heat.

TNC released...

New EUBP sub-group on Nature Restoration Regulation - call for applications for organisations

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17 September 2024

To support the work of the European Commission around the Regulation, a call for applications to select members of the expert sub-group on the Nature Restoration Regulation has been released! The Nature Restoration Regulation entered into force on August 18th, 2024.

This new expert group...

NetworkNature Task Forces align experts on NbS Standardisation for a greener Europe

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16 September 2024

This year the Nature-based Solutions Task Forces are committed to collaborating towards a more standardised effort to establish NbS more sustainably. We believe that standards can be one important tool for mainstreaming NbS. The mainstreaming of efforts to standardise NbS falls in line with...

NetworkNature Reads: Des arbres à défendre!

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15 September 2024

What is NetworkNature Reads?

#NetworkNatureReads is inspired by # ReadingRainbow and the #NewYorkTimes # ByTheBook series, both of which spread a love of reading by highlighting standout books and the people who love them. Our goal is to do the same, but with a #naturebasedsolutions flavor....