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International Conference on Climate Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience Building

Events | April 19, 2023

The Conference aims at bridging the gap between science, policy and decision-making to support effective resilience building. 📅19 – 21 April 2023 📍Paris, France & Online | According to the latest IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report (August 2021), “climate change is intensifying the water cycle”, which […]

A NEW GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FRAMEWORK FOR DISASTER AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE: PAVING THE WAY FOR PEOPLE AND NATURE

Events | March 30, 2023

This Global Webinar aims to provide an opportunity for protected area managers, government representatives, and relevant actors to come together and discuss the importance of biodiversity for disaster and climate resilience, exchange best practices, identify challenges, and discuss collaboration to […]

URBAN GreenUP International Conference

Events | March 29, 2023

A fellow NBS project is having their final international conference! 📅29th of March 📍Valladolid, Spain | A one-day international URBAN GreenUP event will be held in Valladolid on the 29th March to celebrate the success of the project, after 6 years of cooperation, support and progress towards the d […]

Cities Forum 2023

Events | March 16, 2023

| The 5th edition of Cities Forum will be held in Torino, Italy from 16 to 17 March 2023. The event brings together key urban stakeholders at European, national, regional and local levels who are committed to a green and just future of cities. The Cities Forum is a biennial event of the Europe […]

Nature Futures 2023: Emerging Trends for Nature-Based Enterprises

Events | March 15, 2023

14:00-15:30 CET – Online Register here

Webinar | Sustainable Places: Climate Adapted Cities

Events | February 15, 2023

14:00-15:00 CET – Online | In this Sustainable Places: Climate Adapted Cities event we will explore how city strategists are using nature-based solutions to help urban infrastructures adapt to unprecedented climate impacts, including heatwaves, flooding, air and water pollution and storms. Solution […]

Webinar | Why nature-based solutions matter?

Events | January 26, 2023

12:00-13:00 CET – Online | Nature-based solutions are founded on the idea that healthy and well-managed ecosystems provide critical benefits and services to people, such as removing carbon from the atmosphere, securing safe water resources, improving air quality, and increasing food security. Beyon […]

Nature-based Solutions Conference 2024: Growing Positive Change

June 18, 2024

📅18-20 June 2024📍Oxford, UK Over three days and nine sessions, we will bring together interdisciplinary researchers with practitioners and decision makers from the public and private sectors, as well as Indigenous voices from around the world, to discuss and co-create an action plan for nature-based solutions to support positive social-environmental change. We will examine the…

The Nature of Cities Festival 2024

June 3, 2024

Pushing the boundaries of collaborative engagement, drawing urban thought leaders and changemakers together to build better cities. Following the virtual sessions on the 15th -25th of April, comes the in-person event in Berlin! A three week series of interconnected events. 📅3-7 June 2024📍Berlin TNOC Festival is knowledge-centered, knowledge-led, and action-driven. The 2024 theme of “Action” focuses…

NATURANCE Finance Innovation Festival

May 23, 2024

Insurance and Investment Opportunities for Nature-based Solutions 📅23-24 May 2024📍Laxenburg, Austria The first NATURANCE Festival is set to take place on May 23-24, 2024, in Laxenburg, Austria. The festival aims to bring together various communities involved in climate risk assessment, policy analysis, financial innovation, and advocacy for nature-based solutions. Its objectives include: Please find attached more information on the event,…

Accelerating urban nature-based solutions: A Latin America-European collaboration

May 15, 2024

📅15-17 May 2024📍Barcelona, Spain Cities face urgent global and local challenges to support biodiversity, social cohesion, wellbeing, livelihoods and resilience to climate change. We need nature-based solutions and restored ecosystems to address these priorities. Invaluable experience and good practice exist around the world in many different socio-cultural, ecological and governance contexts. There is now a…

Blog: Bridging benefits and economics with Invest4Nature

February 27, 2024

On July 1st, 2022, JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH – LIFE, the Institute for Climate, Energy and Society (JR) and 14 Partners and Living Labs from 8 different European countries started into the Horizon Europe Project “Invest4Nature – the economics of Nature-based Solutions”. The motivation for this project was that it was evident from other projects…

How does exploitation work? Overcome the Valley of Death with innovation management activities.

January 29, 2024

European Commission funds innovative ideas, research, and solutions with the aim of boosting the EU’s competitiveness and growth. Besides that, the Horizon Europe programme shall help to tackle climate change and to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. As an expert in Exploitation, also called innovation management, Steinbeis Europa Zentrum works as an enabler and…

Open survey: Nature-based enterprises

January 17, 2024

Are you an enterprise working with and for nature on nature-based solutions? Then we invite you to take part in Invest4Nature’s open survey ! We in Invest4Nature are seeking to understand the supply side of the nature-based solutions (NBS) market in Europe. This is key meeting the existing demand and achieving biodiversity net gain by…

Invest4Nature Newsletter #2 is out!

December 20, 2023

We’ve published our second issue of the Invest4Nature Newsletter! Read more to catch up on the latest progress of our partners in enabling more investments in nature-based solutions!

Rooted in Resilience: Tyrolean Protective Forests and Climate Solutions

November 17, 2023

Tyrol – Heart of the Alps. A landscape covered by rugged mountains and rolling valleys. Here, forests play a special role, a constant presence on the mountain sides, yet dynamic and ever changing like the seasons. The Alpine region of Tyrol has a long tradition in handling natural hazards. With only 12 % habitable area,…

Blog: Driving Local solutions for Modena: “Rewriting the adaptation narrative” at CAIC 2023

November 13, 2023

Climate Alliance International Conference (CAIC) 2023 in Modena Invest4Nature was represented at this year’s Climate Alliance International Conference, which took place from October 18th to October 20th in Modena, Italy. Apart from Climate Alliance, the city network of Energy Cities was also present at the conference, with had more than 400 registered participants from over…

Boosting greenery in Poznan with private investment

August 29, 2023

Situated in Poland, Poznan is one of the country’s oldest cities. It boasts a unique ecological landscape characterized by a configuration of ‘green wedges’ arising due to its landscape features, historical conditions, and system of river valleys. The city is surrounded by natural spaces along river valleys in both north-south and east-west directions. In areas…

Afforestation projects and financing mechanisms within the Aarhus Living Lab

June 2, 2023

The Aarhus municipality in Denmark invests about 600.000 € per year on afforestation projects on former agricultural land to provide much needed recreational areas for a growing population in the second largest city in Denmark. This serves to protect the drinking water resource and surface water quality, and to sequester carbon and improve biodiversity over…

Blog: Insights from the Cities Talk Nature Conference

May 15, 2023

Climate Alliance represented Invest4Nature at the “Cities Talk Nature Conference: Unlocking the Potential of Underutilized Urban Areas” organized by the Interlace project on Thursday, May 11th, and Friday, May 12th, 2023, in Chemnitz, Germany. The conference centered around the crucial role of creating and preserving urban nature in the face of climate and biodiversity crises.…

Published! Invest4Nature’s first Newsletter

May 1, 2023

Invest4Nature’s first newsletter is here! Since our Kick-off meeting in Graz, Austria, our project has been off to a good start! What to expect in this first issue ? We’ve brought together the most important basics about Invest4Nature and asked our consortium partners to tell us more:

How EU Taxonomy supports investments in Nature

April 13, 2023

Invest4Nature Expert Linda Romanovska (Melomys Advisory), is an appointed member of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance (“The Platform”) – the technical high-level advisory body to the European Commission tasked with the development of EU Taxonomy of sustainable economic activities. Last month the Platform started work on the second 2-year mandate. In this article Linda…

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