The *PESFOR-W COST action
<https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/research/pesforw/pesfor-w-objectives/>*
is inviting you to its final conference. PESFOR-W is looking into the *positive
impact that woodlands and trees can have on water quality,* and how the
instruments of *payments for ecosystem services (PES, also called
eco-schemes) can co-fund tree-based interventions* by land owners and land
managers. The aim of the PESFOR-W COST Action is to synthesize knowledge,
provide guidance and encourage collaborative research to improve Europe’s
capacity to use Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) to achieve Water
Framework Directive (WFD) targets & other policy objectives through
incentives for planting woodlands to reduce agricultural diffuse pollution
to watercourses.
The conference will introduce the *state-of-the-art in the field*, and will
showcase the work done by the members of the COST action. *Three
stakeholders from policy, science and practice* will illustrate what
Woodland-for-Water PES can do and how they implement them.
The conference is organised as a virtual event, at no cost to the
attendees. Attendance is only possible after *registration*
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/payment-for-ecosystem-services-forest-for-water-final-conference-registration-141952215899>.
*Programme - *full version of the programme here
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QCchojqsjIzuiPP-fgSXJjFyvoIOJnZF/view?usp=sharing>
(here
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PL5Js7FJbXPo_ZPVi5UA7VamUC0mXwcd/view?usp=sharing>for
GMT times).
Dr Rik De Vreese - rik.devreese@xxxxxxxxx <rik.devreese%2Bpesfor@xxxxxxxxx>
Independent researcher and consultant in Urban Forestry and Ecosystem
Services
Remi Vlerickstraat 26, 9052 Ghent (Belgium), VAT BE0685.380.026
