Project summary
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges requiring urgent policy action. The climate crisis is dire.
We pollute a lot. We have known that for a long time. What is new is that we are increasingly putting up resources. First to reduce emissions, individually and collectively. Second, to offset them by investing in clean projects.
The compensation of greenhouse gas emissions is, in general, a topic underdeveloped by the public administrations and, when developed, very limited and traditional measures are entered into force.
NACAO project aims at being an accelerator for regional governments with competences on climate change throughout Europe approaching actively the offsetting of carbon emissions, in this case by developing nature-based solutions and policies contributing to the offsetting of emissions through them.
During the project, regional governments with competences on environment and climate change from the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Europe will share green and blue carbon solutions and policies in force aiming at the preservation, restoration and improvement of natural sites acting as carbon sinks- such as forests, wetlands and other ecosystems – that compensate greenhouse gas emissions; also, their experiences on carbon credits and emissions markets related to nature-based solutions.
The ultimate aim is for the partners to increase their knowledge and capacity to implement in their regions green and blue carbon initiatives and policies learnt during the cooperation, regions contributing thus to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
Unlike previous projects dealing mostly with quantification of emissions in different sectors of activity, NACAO addresses exclusively the field of compensation measures and policies and focuses exclusively on nature-based solutions facilitating compensation.
We pollute a lot. We have known that for a long time. What is new is that we are increasingly putting up resources. First to reduce emissions, individually and collectively. Second, to offset them by investing in clean projects.
The compensation of greenhouse gas emissions is, in general, a topic underdeveloped by the public administrations and, when developed, very limited and traditional measures are entered into force.
NACAO project aims at being an accelerator for regional governments with competences on climate change throughout Europe approaching actively the offsetting of carbon emissions, in this case by developing nature-based solutions and policies contributing to the offsetting of emissions through them.
During the project, regional governments with competences on environment and climate change from the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Europe will share green and blue carbon solutions and policies in force aiming at the preservation, restoration and improvement of natural sites acting as carbon sinks- such as forests, wetlands and other ecosystems – that compensate greenhouse gas emissions; also, their experiences on carbon credits and emissions markets related to nature-based solutions.
The ultimate aim is for the partners to increase their knowledge and capacity to implement in their regions green and blue carbon initiatives and policies learnt during the cooperation, regions contributing thus to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
Unlike previous projects dealing mostly with quantification of emissions in different sectors of activity, NACAO addresses exclusively the field of compensation measures and policies and focuses exclusively on nature-based solutions facilitating compensation.
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1,431,623 € budget
01 Mar 2023-31 May 2027
6 partners