Upcoming events from members of the NATURA network of networks.
Join the Nature-based solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene (NATURA) network of networks for the 2022 All-Hands Meeting in Malta. The meeting will provide an opportunity for members to connect, share knowledge and present research.
TNOC Festival pushes boundaries to radically imagine our cities for the future. A virtual festival that spans 3 full days with programming across all regional time zones and is provided in multiple languages.
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.
The conference brings together leading researchers from the social and natural sciences, engineering and economics with policymakers, civil society actors and business leaders to discuss the potential of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to meet societal goals in a warming world. The conference will draw together the current state of the interdisciplinary evidence for the socioeconomic and ecological effectiveness of NbS, and explore the social, technical, ethical, ecological, governance and financial challenges around scaling them up. **Given huge challenges and uncertainties around COVID-19, including the possibility of a winter resurgence, we have postponed our conference by 12 months, i.e. to 6-8 July 2021. However, there will be a virtual NbS event on 7-9 July 2020. We will be posting more details about this here in the very near future**
Consider attending this webinar by NATURA partner network, USDA Forest Service! This webinar is a part of a series called Urban Forest Connections which brings experts together to discuss the latest science, practice, and policy on urban forestry and the environment. These webinars are open to all.
The Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) is happy to announce that its third ESP Europe Regional conference will take place in Tartu, Estonia from 21-24 September 2020. The conference theme is 'Ecosystem Service Science, Policy and Practice in the face of Global Changes'.
The principal aim of The Nature of Cities Festival is to spark conversations across ways of knowing and modes of action to build a movement—a new collaborative and transdisciplinary movement for green cities that are just, livable, resilient, healthy, and sustainable. Festival Theme: Better cities for nature and all people.
This virtual event will feature speakers who will share their experience on the application of nature-based solutions (NbS) to provide long-term social, ecological and economic benefits. The outcome of the event will be a practical understanding of the multiple advantages of NbS, including climate mitigation and adaptation, as well as ecological, social, and economic benefits.
Held once every four years, the IUCN World Conservation Congress brings together several thousand leaders and decision-makers from government, civil society, indigenous peoples, business, and academia, with the goal of conserving the environment and harnessing the solutions nature offers to global challenges.
The Infrastructure Misfits (un)Society in partnership with ASU's Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering, UREx SRN, and Convergence Resilience research project are proud to host the 2020 Infrastructure and the Anthropocene Workshop.
The purpose of the Local Climate Solutions for Africa (LoCS4Africa) congress series is to strengthen cooperation that will lead to significant climate action. To achieve this, improved cooperation between local, regional and national governments is essential, as well as with the private sector, community based organisations, academia and researchers. Each congress provides space to exchange new visions and strategies for climate action in Africa.
This dynamic session brings together researchers and city practitioners to discuss what we can learn from ENABLE research and from experiences during lockdowns in different cities participating in ENABLE. It explores how we can make better use of green and blue spaces in an equitable way to manage and prepare for pandemics and other disasters.
This session seeks to explore the potential that a nexus approach – in this case: nature – climate – health – might have in terms of creating new insights, pathways and processes to bolster nature’s support to climate mitigation and adaptation and human health and well-being in cities.
The Oosting Lecture is an annual presentation by distinguished scholars with an international reputation in the field of Ecology. The endowed lecture honors the preeminent plant ecologist, Henry J. Oosting, and is presented by the University Program in Ecology, the Nicholas School of the Environment, and the Department of Biology.
Registerby Friday, October 16
Connecting Nature webinar on the nature-based economy and the launch of the Connecting Nature Enterprise Platform.
We are hosting our 7th webinar in a series that presents the networks across the globe that make up the network of networks. At this webinar, Pippin Anderson will be presenting the African Centre for Cities and JD Brown and Tim Beatley will be presenting Biophilic Cities. More information can be found here.
Join us for a presentation and demonstration of Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities (HTHC), a free app and suite of resources developed in partnership by The Nature Conservancy and the USDA Forest Service. Drs. Michelle Johnson and Rich Hallett of the USDA Forest Service will share the science behind the HTHC non-stressor specific health monitoring protocol, talk about what you need to get started on your own tree health monitoring project for new trees and/or mature trees and describe an opportunity to have your data used to answer questions about the relationship between tree stewardship and health.
Take the opportunity to learn more about nature-based solutions by attending Nature4Cities' breakfast webinar programme.
Over five sessions you will learn about nature-based solutions approaches, how to remove technical barriers, engaging stakeholders, removing economic barriers and how Nature4Cities can help you on your journey.
This October, ICLEI and the Federal City of Bonn are excited to welcome you to Daring Cities 2020, a virtual, global forum on climate change for urban leaders tackling the climate emergency, especially in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Daring Cities 2020 will run from 7-28 October 2020, offering an online array of high level and visionary speaking sessions, a series of informative workshops and personal networking opportunities. Over a three-week period, attendees will have access to a variety of virtual formats to accommodate different topics, time zones, internet bandwidth limits, and languages. The event will help to set the course to COP26, Daring Cities 2021 and beyond.
The virtual conference “Nature-Based Solutions: Unlocking Urban Potential“ will take place on 24 September 2020 and draw on four years of research and practice undertaken through the NATURVATION project to explore how the urban potential of nature-based solutions can be unlocked.
Join Jeb Brugmann, orchestrator of ICLEI’s founding and its first Secretary General, California State Senator Nancy Skinner, credited for founding ICLEI’s U.S. office, alongside researcher Ben Leffel and ICLEI Director of Global Policy Yunus Arikan for a look into how U.S. cities counties continue to assert their leadership: past, present, and future.
The USDA Forest Service is presenting a webinar in a series called Urban Forest Connections. This webinar topic– Redlining’s Intensifying Harm: Rising Temperatures, Hotter Neighborhoods, and How Trees Can Help.
When: August 12th from 1:00-2:15pm EDT
The 105th annual meeting encourages contributions that address these issues or that employ novel and integrative approaches to harnessing the data revolution to address pressing issues in ecology.
Please join us for Nature-based Solutions Digital Dialogues: a virtual event comprising plenaries, panels and poster sessions. We will use this as an opportunity to consolidate our international understanding of key issues around NbS implementation, and will feed our conclusions into the UN summits on biodiversity and climate change.
In this webinar, participants will hear from two organizations that provide grants to research or implement nature-based solutions. They will also hear from a state transportation department that partnered with their state natural resources agency to develop a nature-based solution to mitigate coastal flood risks to a highway.
This meeting will bring together over 30 key researchers and practitioners via Zoom working on nature-based solutions across network institutions and beyond. Open to members of the NATURA network and invited guests. Virtual meeting details to come.
EU Green Week will put the spotlight on biodiversity, in the context of this broader ecological crisis. It will call for urgent action, explore possible pathways for change, and examine how a range of EU policies like the European Green Deal can help protect, restore and sustainably manage nature, leaving room for it to recover and thrive.
Join us March 17th [(7am (UTC-7, Phoenix), 10am (UTC-5, New York), 2pm (UTC+0, London), 4pm (UTC+2, Cape Town), 10 pm (UTC+8, Beijing)] for a Webinar that will introduce the goals of the Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene (NATURA) project, which links 26 networks in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, North and Latin America, and globally to enhance connectivity among the world's scholars and practitioners and improve the prospects for global urban sustainability. To join the conversation log on via Zoom here.
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.
