Organisers: Fundación Biodiversidad, Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Spain
To address the global environmental emergency and the objectives of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, it is essential to improve environmental governance and to find efficient tools to do it.
In this context, land stewardship aims to boost collaboration between public administrations, the private sector (landowners, companies, land managers) and NGOs for nature conservation and restoration, as a set of useful strategies and instruments that aim to involve landowners (public and private) and entities in the promotion of voluntary agreements for the conservation and sustainable use of natural, cultural and landscape values and resources.
Moderator:
Elena Pita. Director. Fundación Biodiversidad (Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge)
Speakers:
Marc Vilahur. General Director. Generalitat de Catalunya
Jürgen Tack. Secretary General. European Land Owners.
Willem Ferwerda. Founder. Commonland
John Smaranda. Romanian Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests
The session will focus on:
- Innovation, focused on financial and governance mechanisms and the development of public policies.
- Mobilization of funding, attracting private and public European and national funds to scaling-up land stewardship results.
- Internationalisation, maximising the flow of innovation and transferability in land stewardship.
- Land stewardship's role in implementing other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs).