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🇨🇮 LoCEL-H2 Field Diaries: To successfully introduce new technology to our pilot locations, it is crucial to align with local customs. In Côte d’Ivoire, our team is carefully studying a unique aspect of land ownership. As the top cocoa producer in the world, Côte d’Ivoire’s economy is deeply tied to the land. However, land ownership in the traditional sense is different here. People don’t own the land or soil, but rather what is 𝐨𝐧 the land, such as cocoa trees and livestock. This subtle but important distinction shapes everything from farming practices to community planning. Our sociology and energy access experts from Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and RHYDE collaborated closely with the community to investigate local practices during the field work carried out earlier this year. Field work helps us tailor our approach, ensuring that innovation is introduced in a way that supports local livelihoods, respects traditions and maximises benefits. ☀️ Learn more about our project #LoCELH2: https://loom.ly/mQ805rA #HorizonEU #EUScience #EnergyAccess #MissionClimateAdaptation EU Science, Research and Innovation | CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency

Exciting news for #NAIT and the Centre for Boreal Research (CBR)! The Government of Alberta is investing over $3.6 million in post-secondary research, including a significant boost to NAIT Applied Research's Boreal Research Project (nait.li/3SepECC). This funding will enhance our infrastructure and equipment, driving advancements in peat/wetland restoration, forest reclamation, and plant and seed technology development. Laura Jo Gunter, President and CEO of NAIT, highlights that this support will better enable NAIT to assist Indigenous and industry partners in crucial reclamation and remediation work. This investment reflects a strong commitment to technological excellence and innovation in Alberta, particularly in the environmental research sector. It's a clear recognition of the world-class research happening right here at NAIT’s CBR, a nationally recognized Centre of excellence. Stay informed about the impactful work at the Centre for Boreal Research and discover how we're contributing to sustainability in Alberta. Visit NAIT.ca/CBR to learn more about our groundbreaking projects and initiatives. #Innovation #EnvironmentalSustainability #ForestConservation #AppliedResearch

Great discussions at #UKREiiF today on BNG, natural capital and nature positive. There was the opportunity to reflect on how we are doing on mandatory BNG, usefully summarised in a session ('Building Up Best Practice for Building Our BNG' hosted by BNGAI by AIDASH) with RTPI's Victoria Hills following the National Audit Offices publication of 'Implementing statutory biodiversity net gain' report last week. The resounding feeling in the room was that there is still work to be done in working out our long term approach to BNG, looking further than the initial 30 years and building towards nature positive. I think this highlights the requirement to build literacy around natural capital and how we can use our understanding of the holistic value of our natural environment to future proof assets, factoring in nature related risks and dependencies. Now is the time to be considering nature as a whole, incorporating biodiversity, carbon storage, natural flood management and other ecosystem services into our planned developments and asset management. #UKREiiF #naturepositive #ecosystemservices #nature #bng

Road building impacts #springs and poses a threat to the #WaterSecurity of local communities. We are working with partners to address these threats through a pilot project in Dhankuta district, #Nepal, combining guidelines for green roads published by MetaMeta Research and the Department of Local Infrastructure (DoLI) with our tested six-step spring revival protocol. For more, please read this blog by our colleague Sanjeev Bhuchar and Saroj Yakami from MetaMeta: https://lnkd.in/eDUGiGTi

🔎🔓#OpenAccess: Almost all nation-states share aquifers with their neighbours, but how many actually cooperate when it comes to #groundwater management and data collection? 📖 In their research article 'Transboundary water cooperation under SDG indicator 6.5.2: disaggregating data to provide additional insights at the aquifer level', Christina Fraser, Neno Kukurić, Tatiana DMITRIEVA and Aurélien Dumont did a deep dive into such cooperation arrangements. 📊 Full article and relevant data set are now freely available! https://lnkd.in/dvBGGqv7 With UNESCO and IWA Publishing. #water #opendata #openscience #science #GlobalGoals #SDGs #SDG6

With thousands of biodiversity units being generated across the country as I type, developers can prepare for a predictable, professional, affordable and thriving biodiversity market, to streamline and speed up development, while reversing the decline of biodiversity in England at landscape scale... 🦋

I think it is time to write about the Project that I am implementing in a team with Igor Storchak, Galyna Chos, Yevheniia Kozyr, #HannaStepanenko, together with Olena Melnyk and Mariana Melnykovych in the framework of #CASRebuildUkraine, organised by Berner Fachhochschule BFH. The name of the project #RemediationOfAgrarianLandsOfUkraine" very much reflects the goal we have in mind. In Ukraine there are more than 50 thousand square kilometres of agrarian land affected by hostilities. Of course, first of all, it is necessary to survey such lands by humanitarian demining operators (including such as FSD (Fondation suisse de déminage), Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD), Global Clearance Solutions (GCS), #HKGroup) and, if necessary, to demine them. But after this, it is necessary to be sure that these lands are safe to use for growing food from an ecological point of view. And this is the main goal of the Project - to survey all agrarian lands of Ukraine affected by military actions and, in case of revealing the need for remediation measures, to help in this directly to land users. Important components of the Project: - expand the range of persons who can take soil samples (including through the involvement of specialists with expertise in humanitarian demining operators) - utilise the potential of the best laboratories to obtain the maximum in-depth expertise of the samples obtained - obtaining expert opinion on the possibility of land use and what remediation activities are necessary to restore soils (incl. from producers of soil remedies) - making all information important for the Project beneficiaries and stakeholders publicly available through online maps. The project is implemented by the Berner Fachhochschule BFH , ETH Zürich , Royal Agricultural University (UK), Сумський національний аграрний університет (Sumy National Agrarian University). The main partners and stakeholders of the Project from the side of Ukraine are #MinistryOfEconomy and #MinistryOfAgrarianPolicyAndFood. Laboratories and experts from Switzerland, Great Britain, European Union and Ukraine participate in the Project. The Ukrainian humanitarian demining operator #HKGroup has already confirmed its participation in the Project. The possibility of engaging deminers for sampling is being worked out with this company. If you see that you can be useful to the Project or the Project can be useful to you, or you need more information about the Project, feel free to contact me on LinkedIn or e-mail me at  yevggetman@gmail.com yevgen.getman@students.bfh.ch  we will be happy to answer all your questions. I would be grateful if you would share this information among your friends, acquaintances, colleagues. Maybe among them there are those who are just now looking for such a project in order to participate in it. #CASRebuildUkraine Thomas Rohner Mirjam Sick Jan Grenz

In Ukraine there are more than 50 thousand square kilometres of agrarian land affected by hostilities. Yevgen Getman outlines the #RemediationOfAgrarianLandsOfUkraine" initiative, with the goal to survey all agrarian lands of Ukraine affected by military actions and, in case of revealing the need for remediation measures, to help in this directly to land users. If you see that you can be useful to the project or the project can be useful to you, or you need more information about the project, contact Yevgen on LinkedIn or send an e-mail to: yevggetman@gmail.com yevgen.getman@students.bfh.ch #ukraine #humanitariandemining #eod #erw #demining

Terrestrial groundwater dependant ecosystems and dieback monitoring