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Between 15-17 August 2021 in Varna, Bulgaria a technical workshop on the advancements and challenges in ecosystem services accounting in Bulgaria was organized. The event was held in hybrid form as part of the MAIA (Mapping and Assessment for Integrated Ecosystem Accounting) project.

The workshop was hosted by Prof Boian Koulov (NIGGG-BAS), National Coordinator. Special guest was MAIA’s project coordinator Prof Lars Hein (Wageningen University, the Netherlands).

The presentations and discussions were focused on the current development state of the national ecosystem accounts and on future updates and suggestions about further improvements of the activities in Bulgaria. [Read more…] about Technical workshop on the advancements and challenges in ecosystem services accounting in Bulgaria

CENTRUS – Universidad Iberoamericana participates as co-founder of the American Continental Network of Participatory Community Monitoring, which brings together 33 people from eleven countries of the American continent. This network seeks to constitute a platform that allows, among other goals: (i) to share experiences of participatory community water monitoring, to understand how local initiatives are articulated in the different contexts of the American continent; (ii) to put community data into action to make visible the problems of rivers and streams of the continent, and mobilize knowledge for their recovery; (iii) to strengthen local capacities for local and community participation in decision making on the territory.

This network brings together various social actors so that “our rivers reach the sea alive and healthy”. Find more information on the official website.

The IUCN World Conservation Congress (WCC) in Marseilles this month, both at its Forum and Member’s Assembly represented an important step to join the global Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) community, who are rapidly advancing systems to assess the contribution of nature to the economy as its role in supporting economic growth, to the IUCN conservation community.

In advance of the WCC, the adoption of the IUCN Resolution on Accounting for Biodiversity, calling the conservation community to mobilize resources to develop and implement accounting for biodiversity, to apply accounting to support the derivation of indicators of biodiversity change and to support its mainstreaming, set the stage for important discussions held at a Forum session on its implementation (more on that below). At the Member’s Assembly, the approval of the IUCN Resolution on Towards a Policy on Natural Capital, which proposes non-binding principles – including definitions, inclusivity and implementation – to be considered in the development of an IUCN Policy on Natural Capital was yet another important milestone towards placing nature conservation at the foundation of sustainable development. [Read more…] about Natural capital accounting at the IUCN World Conservation Congress