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City: Zoom
Organiser: SIWI
Zoom
Welcome to our webinar where we are going to highlight the opportunities that landscape restoration provides for improved water management, climate change adaptation, biodiversity and sustainable economic development!
Safe access to clean water is a growing challenge, and Sweden is no exception. Landscape restoration can provide a solution for improving water security whilst simultaneously benefitting people and the environment. Global warming, extended periods of drought and increasingly erratic precipitation patterns are presenting unprecedented challenges and put pressure on water-related ecosystem services which our landscape's productivity is reliant on.
These services are also crucial to the achieving many of the SDGs, something that ‘The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration’ is aiming to highlight. We believe that Swedish actors also can contribute to this and hope you want to join us in exploring this opportunity!
Lars Laestadius, Adjunct Lecturer at SLU Department of Forest Ecology & Management and Director at Eco-Innovation Foundation
Izabella Koziell, Program Director at CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)
Aida Bargues Tobella, Postdoctoral Researcher at SLU Department of Forest Ecology & Management and Focali
Susan Chomba, Programme Manager for Regreening Africa, World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
Ulf Johansson, Global Wood Supply & Forestry Manager at IKEA
Rafael Chaves, President of the Brazilian Society for Ecological Restoration - SOBRE
Anita Bergstedt, Länsstyrelsen Västra Götaland – the project ”Nature-based solutions against flooding”
PROGRAMME
10.15 Welcome and introduction
10.25 Inspirational talks
Presentation: Lars Laestadius, SLU
Presentation: Izabella Koziell, CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)
10.55 Interactive session – audience presentation
11.05 Short break
11.15 Water in the landscape
Presentation: Aida Bargues Tobella, Focali/SLU
11.30 Interactive session – audience present their restoration related work
11.45 LUNCH BREAK
12.45 Speed talks
Presentation: Susan Chomba, ICRAF
Presentation: Ulf Johansson, IKEA
Presentation: Rafael Chaves, the Brazilian Society for Ecological Restoration – SOBRE
Presentation: Anita Bergstedt, Länsstyrelsen Västra Götaland
13.20 Energizer
13.25 Interactive World Café session: 4x break-out groups
13.50 Short break
14.00 Feedback from World Café groups
14.20 Concluding remarks
14.30 End