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Transparent: Call for methods

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Have you developed a tool, methodology or resource that can help business measure, account for and/or value natural capital impacts and dependencies? If so, Transparent would like to hear from you!  

Transparent (an EU LIFE funded project) is seeking to develop natural capital accounting principles and methods for businesses to use in mainstreaming the value of nature into their decision making. The use of holistic datasets and standardized methodologies will also facilitate businesses in aligning with broad societal ambitions such as the European Green Deal and the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Transparent consortium has already sought comments on the first draft of the Transparent Methodology. Feedback from the consultation period highlighted the need to strengthen advice on accessible, up to date and repeatable methodologies for measuring and accounting for natural capital.

Transparent is therefore calling for contributions of tools, methodologies and/or resources that are being used or could be used to measure, account for, and/or value natural capital within corporate natural capital assessments. [Read more…] about Transparent: Call for methods

Piloting Natural Capital Accounts for the United States

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In this National Ecosystem Services Partnership (NESP) webinar, hear from Ken Bagstad (USGS), Scott Wentland (BEA), Mehdi Heris (Hunter College), and Katie Warnell (Duke University) about pilot natural capital accounts for land, water, ecosystems, and urban ecosystem services developed for the United States, which were described in a recent special issue of Ecosystem Services. This will be the first of two NESP webinars on natural capital accounting; the second will focus on next steps for using natural capital accounting in decision-making.

The webinar will take place on 11 March 2022. Read more and register here.

Workshop on Integrated Assessment of Forest Ecosystem Services, Values and Trade-Offs

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The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) and the Forest Division of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) are organizing, in cooperation with the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP), a workshop on forest ecosystem services at ETHZ on 5 and 6 May 2022. The event is aimed at forestry professionals and others working on forestry issues, as well as researchers and students.

Registration is free and will open 7 February. More information can be found on this page.

As the number of participants is limited, a waiting list will be kept if necessary. The deadline for registration is 6 April 2022.

Two post-doc positions: land-based, climate change mitigation modelling for the European forest sector

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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology seeks two postdoctoral researchers in the field of land-based, climate change mitigation modelling for the forest sector in Europe. The positions will contribute to the European Commission funded (Horizon Europe) ForestPaths project, held within the Land Use & Climate Change Research Group and the Global Land Ecosystem Modelling Group of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), located at KIT’s attractive ‘Campus Alpin’ in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. [Read more…] about Two post-doc positions: land-based, climate change mitigation modelling for the European forest sector

Project leader Biodiversity and Natural Capital, RIVM (Dutch language required)

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National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), the Netherlands
(Dutch below)

Are you a project leader and do you want to contribute to improving our biodiversity and nature? Do you have the skills to effectively lead various research projects? Then apply and make sure that this team of scientists can properly communicate its knowledge about our “natural capital” to Dutch policymakers.

At RIVM, more than 2,200 colleagues work together every day on a healthy and sustainable living environment for man and ecosystems. Within the Center for Sustainability, Environment and Health (DMG), five enthusiastic colleagues from the Environmental Effects and Ecosystems department work on research in the field of biodiversity and natural resources. [Read more…] about Project leader Biodiversity and Natural Capital, RIVM (Dutch language required)