2020 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 26)
3rd Ecosystem Services Partnership Europe Conference 2020
The Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) is happy to announce that its third ESP Europe Regional conference will take place in Tartu, Estonia in September 2020.
The ESP Europe 2020 Regional Conference is part of the bi-annual cycle of ESP regional conferences around the globe. The Regional Conferences follow our World Conference of which the last ESP10 World conference in Germany hosted nearly 800 delegates from 65 countries.
More information available here: https://www.espconference.org/europe2020
11th International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT)
The 11th Edition of the International Conference on “Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning” will focus on how to integrate Nature-Based Solutions in urban and regional planning processes and science. The Conference will be hosted in 2020 by the University of Catania.
INPUT2020 will gather international scholars in the field of planning, civil engineering and architecture, ecology and social science, to build and consolidate the knowledge and evidence on NBS and to help an efficient implementation and replication of solutions.
Read more here: http://www.input2020.unict.it/
Connecting Nature Enterprise Summit
Connect, learn and share your ideas about the challenges and opportunities facing nature-based enterprises at the Connecting Nature Enterprise Summit in Poznań, Poland.
Programme events include:
- Roundtable discussion with European Commission representatives and policy makers on actions needed to support nature-based enterprises
- Capacity building workshops for nature-based enterprises
- Investment Forum and Pitch Event
- Nature-based enterprise showcase and “speed dating” connecting businesses to cities planning to scale out and implement nature-based solutions
- Most innovative nature-based enterprise awards in commercial and special enterprise categories
- Poznań City tour to visit nature-based solutions in practice
- Informal networking events at the Summit Beach Party and conference dinner
Nature-based Solutions Conference 2020
Nature-based Solutions in a Changing Climate Conference 2020 at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
More information here: https://www.naturebasedsolutionsoxford.org/
SURE 2020: 3rd World Conference of the Society for Urban Ecology 2020
Scientists, practitioners and policy-makers interested in relations between socioeconomic and ecological components of urban systems are invited to attend The 3rd World Conference of the Society for Urban Ecology 2020.
The leading concept of the SURE2020 conference in Poznań is to provide the welcoming forum for scholars, experts and business and administration professionals to present their research and discuss the ideas, concepts, experiences and different points of view.
More information can be found here: https://sure2020.org/
IUCN World Conservation Congress
The IUCN World Conservation Congress has grown to be the world’s largest and most democratic recurring conservation event in the world, bringing the expertise and influence of its powerful membership to bear on the most pressing issues of the time. It is where the world comes together to set priorities and drive conservation and sustainable development action. The event has three main components: The Members’ Assembly, where IUCN Members vote on priority actions; the Forum, a global marketplace of conservation science and innovation; and the Exhibition, where exhibitors can showcase their work to Congress participants and the public.
At the last World Conservation Congress, in 2016, more than 10,000 participants attending the IUCN Congress in Hawaii, USA, shared the latest in conservation science, launched new initiatives and helped move 2015’s historic climate and sustainable development agreements into action.
Joint Symposium: Multiple Values of Nature
Joint Meeting of the British Ecological Society Journal, People and Nature, and the Valuing Nature Programme. The meeting will be an international, broad-scope, interdisciplinary event reflecting the ethos of both People and Nature and the Valuing Nature Programme. It will cover many aspects of the multiple values of nature and will broadly fall under three themes: Balancing Multiple Values: Opportunities and challenges, Values in action: Exploring processes of change and transformation, Beyond the Usual Suspects: Finding Diverse Support for Nature Protection. The meeting aims to foster cross-disciplinary research collaborations and inform the agenda in this growing and fast-moving research area.
ReNature Training Course 4
World Biodiversity Forum 2020
2020 will see a new global biodiversity framework that will pave the way to achieve the 2050 vision of the Convention on Biological Diversity – Living in Harmony with Nature. This Conference will contribute to this vision.ReNature Training Course 3 'Nature-based Solutions in Urban Planning'
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are actions inspired and supported by nature that have the potential to build resilience in cities, while also providing multiple co-benefits to urban communities and individuals. Examples include urban green and blue space, green roofs and walls, rain gardens, community gardens, sustainable urban drainage systems. The research into NbS is progressing rapidly, and there is a need to mainstream results into urban planning. This training course is aimed at PhD students, post-doc and research fellows, practitioners, and public officers interested in planning and designing NbS to address urban challenges.
The course, organized by the ReNature project, will upskill participants in: understanding the ecological foundations of NbS, assessing their impacts on ecosystem services and their socio-economic implications, identifying planning barriers and opportunities, applying key principles for NbS design.