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| Project title: | PROmoting the Governance of Regional Ecosystem ServiceS |
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| Project short title: | PROGRESS |
| Number of project implementation agreement: | PGI05955 |
| Registration number: | 4172 |
| Department: | Department of Civil Engineering and Real Estate Economics and Management |
| Administrating department: | Department of Civil Engineering and Real Estate Economics and Management |
| Finance fund: | Interreg Europe |
| Project RTU role: | project partner |
| Status: | Ended |
| Project start date: | 01.08.2019. |
| Project end date: | 31.07.2023. |
| Title of grant issuer: | ERDF, INTERREG EUROPE |
| General manager: | Sanda Lapuķe |
| Administrative manager: | Vineta Fortiņa |
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total Interreg Europe project budget: EUR 1,445,500.00 total ERDF: EUR 1,204,225.00 |
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The Regional Biodiversity Strategy (RBS) is the instrument aimed at the design and implementation until 2020 of the most urgent regional actions to fight the loss of biodiversity and of the ecosystem services offered by both the terrestrial and the marine environments. The RBS is consistent with and functional to the National Strategy for Biodiversity 2020 and the EU Strategy for Biodiversity. This strategy has been included in the Regional Plan for Environment and Energy so to guarantee the implementation of those actions that are considered most urgent and their necessary integration, both with the planning of protected areas and with other environmental policies. The main objective of this Strategy is to preserve and enhance the natural heritage of terrestrial and marine biodiversity of Tuscany, reducing and controlling human pressure which constitute a threat, favoring its sustainable use at the benefit of current and future generations. The RBS is in fact a response to the need for integration between the protection of biodiversity and the objectives pursued by sector policies, through a multidisciplinary approach and collaboration between different offices of the Regional Authority, local authorities, protected areas, agencies, the academic and scientific world, etc. What should be improved is the horizontal integration of the ecosystem concerns into the sectoral policies and plans and innovative financial and marketing mechanisms for payment for ecosystem services. |
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The sub-objective is to contribute to capacity building and policy learning in the partners’ regions by supporting exchange of experience among relevant stakeholders, in order to: - promote the measurement of the costs and benefits of ecosystem services derived from land use. - support the horizontal integration of the ecosystem concerns into the sectoral policies and plans at regional and/or national level. - explore innovative financial and marketing mechanisms for payment for ecosystem services. - ensure planning and funding restoration and adaptation projects and investments in green infrastructure. - improve landscape governance for economic and environmental sustainability. |
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| Project published on RTU website: | 01.08.2019. |