The World Resources Institute (WRI) launched a report titled “Roots of Prosperity: The Economics and Finance of Restoring Land”, on 19th December, 2017 at the Global Landscapes Forum; by Felipe Calderón (former President of Mexico), Naoko Ishii (CEO of GEF) and Andrew Steer (CEO of WRI).
Call for Session Proposals: ACES, December 3-7, 2018
ACES: A Community on Ecosystem Services represents a dynamic and growing international assembly of professionals, researchers, and policy-makers involved with ecosystem services. The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for sharing experiences, methods, and tools for assessing and incorporating ecosystem services into public and private decisions. ACES 2018 conference will be held in the Washington DC, USA, December 3-7. [Read more…] about Call for Session Proposals: ACES, December 3-7, 2018
BogFest: A conference on peatland management
Moors for the Future Partnership is organizing a conference on peatland management on 21-23 September, 2017. The conference will be in the heart of the Peak District National Park. It is supported by the EU LIFE programme through our MoorLIFE 2020 grant and the IUCN UK Peatland programme.
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JRC report: Implementing an EU system of accounting for ecosystems and their services
The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission has just published a report on ecosystem service accounting as the initial contribution of the JRC to the Integrated Natural Capital Accounting (INCA) project.
You can download the report here.
Joint Session between ESP marine working group and the ICES Strategic Initiative on the Human Dimension
In the MARE Conference on People & the Sea IX: Dealing with Maritime Mobilities (Amsterdam, NL – 5-7 July 2017), the Marine Biome working group of ESP, organized a joint session with the Strategic Initiative on the Human Dimension of the International Council of the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). [Read more…] about Joint Session between ESP marine working group and the ICES Strategic Initiative on the Human Dimension