ThinkForest Seminar on Payments for Environmental Services: a Way Forward for Mediterranean Forests?

Segnalato da: Federico Magnani

We are pleased to announce that a

“ThinkForest Seminar on Payments for Environmental Services: a Way Forward for Mediterranean Forests?”

will be organised on 14 November 2012 at 16:00 – 18:00 in the European Parliament, Brussels.

The objectives of the event are to:

(i) discuss the specific economic nature of Mediterranean forests and their goods and services
(ii) present the latest scientific knowledge on payments for environmental services and their practical implementation in the Mediterranean region;
(iii) discuss the potential of PES to address specific problems of Mediterranean forests (e.g. forest fires, deforestation);
(iv) present and discuss the requirements for the establishment of PES in diverse institutional conditions reigning in the Mediterranean region (e.g. public and private forests).

For more information and registrations:
http://www.thinkforest.efi.int/portal/events/?bid=855

Sarah Adams
Communications and Project Officer
EFIMED