GGS-AF | Theme 1: Sustainable Water-Soil, Mountain-Forest & Wetland Management

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The Green Gold Session on Agri-Food (GGS-AF) has set up three interlinked themes for 2023. The first session will be held on 12th and 14th April 2023 CET 9:00－11:30 | Beijing Time 15:00-17:30, as an on-offline event. It shall discuss above topics with specialists and representatives from different cities and regions in an open exchange. Speakers from various EU countries, China and India shall attend.

Theme 1: Sustainable Water-Soil, Mountain-Forest & Wetland Management

December.-March. World Days/Weeks: Water-Soil ▪︎ Mountain-Forest ▪︎ Wetland etc.

Water-soil, forest, plain, mountain and wetland ecosystem management are essential that form interlinked foundations of healthy food and a better environment. For example, lively rivers, lakes and watershed environment that support urban and rural lives, forest, lakes and creeks in mountains enable agricultural production in the plains, water, soil and mineral resources and greener energy management that keep up social-economic development……. Ecosystem management from diverse environments are facing similar challenges and solutions in changing and more challenging climate and weather conditions.

Major targeted audiences include international and regional organizations, government departments, education-research institutions, agri-food cultivators and producers, technology-service providers, spatial-landuse planner & designers, investors and investment promoters, financial institutions and services.  

The event details: 

Green Gold Sessions on Agri-Food 

CET 9:00－11:30 | Beijing Time 15:00-17:30

Apr 12, 2023  Soil-Mountain-Forestry 

Apr 14, 2023 Water & Wetland

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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81741379025?pwd=SnBraE1KT3dJVThsT0VoMXJKQ0lEU…

Meeting ID: 817 4137 9025

Passcode: 668800

* Note over the World Days:

The World Days are seen as enabling "connection moments" for knowledge and data sharing of sustainable development communities across the world. The independent study by Natureherit has researched content and models of 200 world celebration days, that cover environmental, social and economic topics, incl. ca. 190 International Days and Weeks observed by the United Nations. It is observed that many of these global moments still lack sufficient connections to regional players to learn global mandates, policies, solutions, cooperation opportunities as well as project progresses etc. Different world day resources could be better connected to each other and national-regional celebration days, to help governmental institutions, sectoral platforms and practical solutions to report and exchange, for example:

Sustainable soil management could be celebrated in various World Days & Weeks, especially the following: Soil, Water, Mountain, Wetland, Forests, Meteorology (Weather), Mother Earth, Health, Food Safety, Cities, Trade and Environment, Investment etc. 

* Note over the Knowledge@Terra Classrooms (K@T):

Knowledge@Terra Classrooms (K@T) is a group platform on Capacity4dev, the European Commission’s knowledge sharing platform for International Cooperation and Development, initiated by Natureherit DC and supporting partners. 

To promote inter-regional communication on green-circular economy and climate actions, and to understand and disseminate policy practices and technical solutions that integrate climate, land, soil and water resources, Knowledge@Terra Classroom (K@T) was launched on World Soil Day in December 2018 by Natureherit DC and supporting partners. In May 2019, the testing progress was reported at an international symposium organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN-FAO). Since September of the same year, inter-regional activities of K@T has been tested on the sub platform set up on Capacity4dev. (Capacity4dev is the European Commission’s online knowledge-sharing platform, created by the Directorate General for International Partnerships (INTPA), that connects development professionals and lets them learn, share, and collaborate with other colleagues and stakeholders. Users include EU institutions staff, as well as development professionals from EU member states, partner governments, civil society, NGOs, international organisations, and the private sector.)

On the K@T Platform, public and internal Green Gold Sessions (GGS) aim at discussing, debating and disseminating key hazards and advanced solutions from cities, countryside and regions. If you have any comments or suggestions, please contact us at xyliu@natureherit.com (Xiaoying Liu); lboeraeve@natureherit.com (Luc Boeraeve).