European Ecosystem Services Conference

The European Ecosystem Services Conference will meet under the theme, ‘Helping nature to help us,' and will focus on the role that healthy ecosystems play in supporting human well-being and the protection of nature. The meeting agenda includes: keynote presentations from policy, practice and science; a networking day where businesses, practitioners, policymakers and researchers will showcase their work; interactive sessions to demonstrate working examples of ecosystem services and natural capital; field excursions to see ecosystem services in action; and scientific sessions. The conference is being organized by the EU-funded research projects ECOPLAN and the Ecosystem Services Partnership, among others, and hosted by the University of Antwerp. 

Event Holder: International Institute for Sustainable Development

Source of data: World Development Indicators (WDI), July 2016, Global Forest Resources Database, 2015, Forestry / Forestry Production and Trade, 2015, Global Innovation Index, 2015