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City Finance Lab opens its first call for ideas

21 June 2018

The City Finance Lab (CFL), a joint venture between EIT Climate-KIC and South Pole, has opened its first call for cutting edge climate finance solutions for cities.

Selected ideas will be announced in early September and will receive guidance to develop and improve their proposals from...

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PEGASUS Case Studies on Oppla

5 June 2018

PEGASUS is a Horizon 2020 project led by the Institute for European Environmental Policy that is helping to achieve the EU2020 vision of ‘smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’ regarding the use of agricultural and forestry land.

A major element of the PEGASUS project are 34 case...

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EKLIPSE Open Calls for Involvement and Funding

23 May 2018

The purpose of EKLIPSE is to answer questions affecting biodiversity and make evidence-based decisions through a request process which involves inviting decision-makers, practitioners or other stakeholders to submit proposals via different types of Calls.

EKLIPSE currently has a number...

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Wroclaw creates space for nature-based solutions to improve quality of life

18 May 2018

The city of Wroclaw in Poland is one of the frontrunner cities of the GrowGreen project, which is creating new high quality green spaces in order to demonstrate how nature can contribute to improving the local climate, urban water management and air quality. Green roofs, green walls and pocket...

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New EKLIPSE Reports now available

1 May 2018

The Impacts of artificial Electromagnetic Radiation on Wildlife

The reports from a web-conference organised by EKLIPSE in January are now available.

The web-conference discussed the Impacts of artificial ElectroMagnetic Radiation (EMR) on wildlife (flora and fauna). The aim of the web-...

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Municipality of Sluis, the Netherlands: newly developed tidal nature in combination with recreation and coastal defense at Waterdunen project

New paper: Benefit-to-cost ratios of wetland and reef restoration

11 April 2018

'Comparing the cost effectiveness of nature-based and coastal adaptation: A case study from the Gulf Coast of the United States' has recently been published in Plos One. The paper finds that wetland and reef restoration in the Gulf can yield benefit-to-cost ratios of above 3.5 on average,...

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AQUACROSS share case studies on Oppla

3 April 2018

Eight new case studies have been added to Oppla by the AQUACROSS project.

The case studies are a major source of information and data and ensure interaction across aquatic ecosystems as well as disciplines.

In particular, the case studies have been selected to:

showcase...

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Contribute to JPI Urban Europe's SRIA 2.0

19 March 2018

What are your urgent challenges in urban transitions? What are the ‘hardest cases’ in sustainable urban development? We want to shape our research and innovation strategy according to your needs and priorities.

In 2018, the JPI Urban Europe conducts a process to update its Strategic Research and...

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Regional Assessments of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - Coming Soon!

5 March 2018

1-minute overview of the planned launch of 4 landmark regional assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem services to be launched in March at the IPBES Plenary in Medellín, Colombia. For further information visit the IPBES website .

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Survey: Understanding the Science-Policy-Interface in planning urban green infrastructure projects

26 February 2018

Do cities use science when planning for infrastructure projects? Do scientists share their knowledge with urban policy makers? Do urban policy makers know the functions of nature in the city?

The EnRoute Project have developed a survey to help to identify obstacles in the science-policy...

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