wildE-Climate-smart rewilding
| Project Status: Live Project |  |
| Principal investigator: Niall Ó Brolcháin | |
| EU Programme: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-02-05: Let nature help do the job: Rewilding landscapes for carbon sequestration, climate adaptation and biodiversity support | |
| Start Date: 01/01/2023 | |
| Finish Date: 12/30/2026 |
Aim & Objectives:
wildE is a new project funded by Horizon Europe that will develop climate-smart rewilding as a nature-based solution to the twin threats of climate change and biodiversity loss.
The European Union has set out ambitious goals to combat the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 aims to restore significant areas of degraded ecosystems and to legally protect 30% of Europe’s territory, with 10% under strict protection.
In turn, the EU Climate Law legally binds the member states to become climate neutral by 2050. The EU goals imply that effective ecosystem restoration needs to occur at much larger scales than to date, yet this is still hindered by multiple barriers, including existing policies and governance structures, funding, and a narrow focus on biodiversity and ecosystems.
Partners:
- www.inrae.fr
- https://kit.edu/
- https://oppla.eu/
- https://www.ku.dk/english/
- https://www.knaw.nl/
- https://www.creaf.cat/es
- https://www.hu-berlin.de/en
- https://efi.int/
- https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/
- https://www.biopolis.pt/en/
- https://www.sav.sk/?doc=ins-org-ins&institute_no=39&lang=en
- www.iucn.org
- https://www.uni-halle.de/?lang=en
- https://www.inrae-transfert.fr/en/
- https://www.czu.cz/en
- https://www.wur.nl/en/wageningen-university.htm
- https://international.au.dk/
- https://www.bswr.de/startseite
- https://www.universityofgalway.ie/
- https://www.coillte.ie/
- https://www.sveaskog.se/
