Swiss stakeholders discuss spiritual ecosystem services at second meeting
Pan Bern AG
Andreas Bernasconi reports on the second stakeholder meeting for the Swiss case study which is working to strengthen the connection between people and the forest [...]
“We need to understand how and why forests might be important for others”
Constanza Parra
Professor Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Belgium
Danish reverse auctioning scheme on the road to success
The Danish case study on a reverse auctioning scheme for the ecosystem service of biodiversity production and protection passed a major milestone this spring when the auction was finally launched on the website of Danish Forest Association. Forest owners from the test region were invited to place their bids using a special online platform created for the purpose.
We received in total 25 bids for biodiversity actions in private forests during the auctioning period, which lasted for about 2 months. There were a large and varying number of high quality and creative projects among the pool of bids, showing the effectiveness of the process and platform in attracting interest.
Rialb 2021: forests for water in Catalonia
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia
Centre de Proprietat Forestal
There was great alignment of different stakeholders around the necessity to implement an innovation mechanism to value forest management and its direct relation with the amount and quality of water. [...]
“SINCERE could lay the foundations for a new European forest related policy”
Georg Winkel
Coordinator SINCERE and Head of Resilience Programme at EFI
The European Forest Institute (EFI), Finland
What is the forest worth?
Consorzio Comunalie Parmensi (Borgo TV)
Stakeholders met in the Tuscan-Emilian community of Borgo Val di Taro to consider the production of their local mushrooms, from supply-oriented to demand-oriented approach [...]
“Being able to use attractive nature areas is essential for the tourism”
Liisa Tyrväinen
Research professor on nature-based tourism and recreation
Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), Finland
SINCERE Talks series kicks off with a focus on forests and water
Forests and water are intricately linked. But the relationships between them are complex and are changing with the changing climate. The first SINCERE Talks webinar, held on 25 September 2020, gave participants a fascinating insight into the topic. Renowned experts Meine van Noordwijk (ICRAF) and Sven Wunder (EFI) discussed firstly how forest management affects hydrological services and secondly how payment for environmental services schemes can support such management.
Poplar and biodiversity: what challenges lie ahead?
Etifor
Protected areas managers of Eastern Lombardy met at Mincio Regional Park to learn from pratices and to figure out why and how should they take actions to sustain the conservation of their areas. The sinergy between SINCERE and Ecopay Connect 2020, a local project financed[...]
“Only a clear mechanism that allows to bridge the end user to the forest will be the only way to improve forest revenues”
Enrico Vidale
Technical consultant
Consorzio Comunalie Parmensi (Borgo TV), Italy
Third MAG meeting in Croatia: progress and challenges
Public Institution Nature Park Medvednica
Lively discussion took place at Institute for Development and International Relations where we held our second MAG meeting.This time we've invited more stakeholders and we had also representatives from the city [...]
“Academics have the important role to provide policy makers and business managers with concrete instruments, models and guidelines”
Paola Gatto
Associate Professor
The University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy
Towards an EU policy framework for forest ecosystem services – reflecting on 2020, exploring 2021!
The SINCERE Talks webinar series continues with an insightful debate on the changing policy framework at EU level for forest ecosystem services, organised jointly with the European Network Integrate.
Monday 7 December 2020, 10:00 – 12:00 CET
First Multi-Actor Group meeting in Bizkaia
Diputacion Foral de Bizkaia
Agents from different fields involved with payment for ecosystem services in Bizkaia met within the framework of the SINCERE project. The first MAG meeting of the Bizkaia was organised in collaboration with the Union of Foresters of Southern Europe [...]
“For politicians forest is still mainly wood”
Yury Gagarin
Leading researcher
Centre for Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Science (CEPF RAS), Russia
Concept for a new Russian Forest Code discussed and agreed by Scientific Council
On 28th of November, 2019, SINCERE partner CEPF RAS hosted an Extended Session of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS) concerning the concept for a new […]
What’s on the policy horizon for forest ecosystem services?
After a tumultuous year of restriction and restraint, can renewed policies in the European Union’s policy framework for forests offer some hope? The new EU Green Deal and the Biodiversity Strategy to 2030 will be complemented in 2021 by the eagerly anticipated EU Forest Strategy. A fitting moment, then, to bring policy makers and practitioners together in the second of the SINCERE Talks series to discuss what this might mean for Europe’s forests and for forest ecosystem services in particular.
Building the foundation for innovation in Flanders, Belgium
Natuurinvest
Innovation can only work when it is conceived to respond to real needs in a specific context, and is supported by those for whom it is developed. In collaboration with the University of Leuven and the Flemish Agency for Nature and Forest, Natuurinvest will test the mechanism of a reverse auction [...]
Forests help us face climate change in myriad ways
Bruno Locatelli
Scientist with CIRAD, University of Montpellier, and CIFOR
Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia