📅 3 June 2021 🕐 15:00-17:00 CET
Virtual
To celebrate the World Environment Day, dedicated this year to ecosystem restoration and the official launch of the UN decade for ecosystem restoration (2021-2030), Wetlands International is pleased to invite everyone to an online event: ‘Water, Wetlands, and Fires: Innovative solutions for Green Recovery in South America’, taking place on 3 June 2021, at 3 – 5 pm CET.
In face of the global climate and water crisis, and in an era of economic and environmental interdependence, interregional cooperation is a powerful tool for finding solutions to these transboundary challenges. The EU Green Deal, is an opportunity for exploring a more sustainable economy, highlighting the preservation of natural ecosystems, strengthening green alliances, supporting local communities, and fostering climate adaptation and mitigation measures together with strong wetland ecosystems restoration efforts.
The event will seek to highlight the importance of innovative solutions for the restoration of wetland ecosystems and exchange with the EU on its significant role in raising global awareness and building solidarity for the innovative solutions that contribute to freshwater ecosystem resilience and green recovery above all for communities across the Pantanal, Ibera Marshes and Parana Delta who are facing the consequences of the pandemic, drought, and fires.
Original Source: Europa.eu
