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The Ecosystem Services Journal has extended the submission deadline for its special issue on recreational ecosystem services. The new submission deadline is 30 June 2017.
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EKLIPSE is inviting experts to join an expert working group to develop recommendations for Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) measures to improve biodiversity and related ecosystem services, with a focus on Ecological Focus Areas–this is a direct policy request from IUCN and the Swedish Board of Agriculture.
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The ECOSTAR Hub has published three original new reports benchmarking for the first time the size, scope, and scale of ecosystem market mechanisms in Europe for voluntary carbon, watershed investments, and biodiversity offsets and compensation. The reports have been developed by Ecosystem Marketplace and Etifor.
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The knowledge-sharing event is on the topic From Payments to Co-investments in Ecosystem Services held by The International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF). (ICRAF)-World Agroforestry Centre of the CGIAR system –has worked on operationalising payments for ecosystem services (PES) schemes in Asia, since 2002, throughthe IFAD-funded Rewarding Upland Poor for Environmental Services (RUPES)project phase I (2002-2005) and phase II (2008-2012), and the subsequent IFAD-funded project called Climate-smart, tree-based, co-investment in adaptation an mitigation in Asia(Smart-Tree Invest), which was recently completed in March 2017.
In this months’ issue of the ESP Update you will find updates on the coming ESP World Conference on the theme “Ecosystem Services for Eco-civilization: Restoring connections between people and landscapes through nature-based solutions”, the latest news about the ESP Asia regional office, and more.
