Today on the CONSOLE website, we want to share more experiences from the case studies. In this case: Solutions can improve water quality!
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We have just uploaded a new deliverable to the CONSOLE project website that we think will be very useful for all interested parties and even projects with similar characteristics. (D1.2 Indentification of potential improved solutions).
Then, this deliverable describes the activities and the results developed in the task 1.2 “Stakeholder co-construction of potential improved solutions”. The objective is to identify the most promising solutions able to improve the design of contracts for agri-environmental-climate public goods (AECPGs) in different case studies and in the EU as a whole.
The activities carried out involved a survey among partners, including selected stakeholders, and a workshop with a broad participation of stakeholders.
Several cases were identified that attracted a wide attention by partners from many countries. Three main AECPGs (carbon sequestration, biodiversity, water quality) were mostly confirmed as of high or very high importance in most cases.
In addition, the further discussion allowed to identify implications for the upcoming WPs. A general message is the high interest for result-based mechanisms, but also the importance of considering hybrid solutions.
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10 private landowners set up a specific association OVML vzw (Ontwikkeling Vijvergebied Midden-Limburg vzw) for participating together to a Life+ project (3watEr project) and ensuring collective implementation on the basis of voluntary agreements by private parties and an integrated management plan.
The Triple E Pond area M-L project aimed to conserve or restore the following species and habitats of Community importance in the Natura 2000 network site ‘Vijvergebied Midden-Limburg’ (‘Pond area M-L’): bittern (Botaurus stellaris); tree frog (Hyla arborea); ‘Oligotrophic waters…’ (3120), ‘Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters…’ (3130), ‘Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix’ (4010) and European dry heaths (4030). The project aimed to secure the ongoing participation of private landowners and other stakeholders in habitat management, to establish a sustainable basis for the conservation of species and habitats by enhancing synergies between Ecology, Education and the local Economy (“triple E-approach”), to enhance public awareness of Natura 2000 and to demonstrate best practices for involving private landowners as partners in the management of Natura 2000 sites. Private contracts for implementation of the LIFE project; integrated nature management plan for the implementation of the nature management goals.
Private landowners were not structured to realize nature management projects, as this until 2014 was rather a monopoly of nature NGO’s in Flanders. As in the Midden-Limburg area, private landownership was crucial to realizing specific nature management objectives, 10 local landowners took the initiative to start a Life+ project with other stakeholders. For doing so they created a private association (OVML vzw) assuming a common partnership in the Life+ project as associated beneficiary of the project. Private contracts were signed between OVML vzw and each of the 10 landowners for the further implementation of the LIFE project, also through an integrated nature management plan.
There is no doubt that Climate Change is changing the way of life of humanity. The last two decades have seen the warmest years, which are causing the most extreme meteorological phenomena (floods, forest fires, heat waves, etc.); and causing irreversible changes in many ecosystems, the loss of biodiversity and the decrease in the production of many crops.
For this reason, climate change is a challenge that requires a response from the European Union (EU), as demonstrated by being one of the signatories of the Paris Agreement, whose objective was to limit global warming to below 2 °C and make efforts to limit it to 1.5 ° C.
As we have been announced in subsequent publications, the EU has developed a series of measures and establishes objectives such as:
And to achieve this, the EU has developed (and adapted to the realities that were emerging) the EU emissions trading system (ETS), to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions, of which the primary sector is a part.
In 2014 the EU agreed to the 2030 climate and energy framework, where it commits to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% (compared to 1990)
On October 15th, the European Council on COVID-19 and Climate Change was held with the aim of evaluating the current epidemiological situation and analysing its position on Climate Change.
At this meeting, it was agreed to increase ambition for the next decade, updating its climate and energy policy framework, and setting the goal of reducing emissions by 55% in 2030.
Learn from 3 European CONSOLE contract solutions!
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Under the ALMO brand, a meat processing company, a foundation for animal welfare, and 400 farmers, organised in an association and managing alpine pastures around the Austrian Teichalm and Sommeralm, work together to produce and market alpine oxen with higher animal welfare standards.
Due to the rapidly increasing motorization in agriculture, the ox has long since been replaced as a draft animal. The domestic demand for ox meat was not significant, so the only way out was to export the Alpine oxen via trading companies with subsidies, in some cases as far as North Africa. In 1988 the idea of founding a brand was born. The ox farmers wanted to produce quality oxen on their alpine pastures for the Austrian market.