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27 Ottobre 2022

Climate change is intensifying, along with climate disasters

Despite recent progress made in #DRR, the danger of leaving hundreds of communities behind is still real. How can we build resilient communities? You can find more in the video that showcase the relationship and impact of early warning systems on reducing disaster risk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGjK-yVf2t0&t=1s Climate change is intensifying, along with climate disasters! The Southern Africa region is occasionally affected by disasters such as Floods and Cyclones. Moreover, the lack of coping capacity against disasters puts the region at high vulnerability against

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24 Ottobre 2022

SETIN developed a Strategic Environmental Assessments and Appropriate Assessments on Nature 2000 sites

The global decline of biodiversity poses fundamental risks to human well-being. It threatens our food and water security, jeopardizes our physical and mental health, weakens our economies, increases fragility, heightens the risk of conflict and exacerbates the climate crisis. The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets out an ambitious plan to implement broad-based action to bring about a transformation in society’s relationship with biodiversity, ensuring that by 2050 the shared vision of ‘living in harmony with nature’ is fulfilled. Read

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24 Ottobre 2022

COP 27 is around the corner

COP 27 is less than 2 months away. What to expect in Egypt, from 6 to 18 November 2022? Glasgow last year, has reiterated the centrality of finance as a catalyst for progress on all aspects of the global climate agenda, and now attention is focused on how COP 27 will manage to mobilize financing tools to realize the commitment of different governments. More information about COP 27 here. Climate adaptation finance is the cornerstone for implementing climate actions and

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24 Ottobre 2022

SETIN was recently contracted for the elaboration of the “Development and Integrated Management Plan for the RBABB”

The Bolama Bijagós Archipelago Biosphere Reserve (RBABB) on the West African coast, in Guinea-Bissau. The archipelago is made up of 88 islands and islets covering a total surface of 1 046 950 hectares. The RBABB includes several protected areas, such as the Urok Islands Community Marine Protected Area (AMCIU), Orango Islands National Park (PNO) and João Vieira and Poilão National Marine Park (PNMJVP). The Bolama Bijagós archipelago is particularly known for its extensive mangrove forests, the population of hippos that roam free on

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SETIN will assist Lago di Bracciano and Martignano Park in the development of the “lake contract” (joint water management tools)

The river’s contract is a new tool based on the voluntary agreement between local authorities and privates as a form of negotiated and shared planning procedure, based on citizens consultation and active participation. It aims at adopting regulations, agreements and operational tools to improve the water management at regional and local scales, considering, inter alia, environmental sustainability, social values and public benefits. In the last call for lake contracts, Lazio Region decided to include also the opportunity to realize specific contracts

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SETIN will prepare the Management Plan of Primeval Beech Forests Natural World Heritage Site

SETIN is involved in the preparation of the “Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe” UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site. The Site is composed by 67 sub-sites (i.e. component parts or clusters) across Europe and, in Italy, this Natural World Heritage Site is composed by 10 sub-sites, located in 5 parks. They comprises “outstanding examples of evolutionary and developmental processes of beech forests since the glacial period, giving rise to a terrestrial ecosystem that has shaped an

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Introduction of the environmental accounting system and Gross Ecosystem Product in Guinea-Bissau

United Nations Development Programme and the Ministry for Environment and Biodiversity are implementing the “Strengthening natural resource valuation capacities for improved planning and decision-making to conserve the global environment” GEF Project in Guinea-Bissau. The goal of this project is to make better decisions to meet and sustain global environmental obligations through improved natural resource valuation and accounting in the Country.  To that end, the objective of this project is to develop technical and institutional capacities for undertaking an economic valuation of

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Bem Diverso Project – field visit to Alto Rio Pardo, Minhas Gerais, Brazil

A field trip was held in the Alto Rio Pardo, in Brasil, to visit experiences in this agro-forestry area. The trip is part of the initiative on Mainstreaming Sustainable Use of Forests for Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Alleviation, under the “Sector Dialogues”, and it is promoted by the European Union, Ministry of Economy, EMBRAPA and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil and the Bem Diverso UNDP/GEF Project. Sector Dialogues are a cooperation instrument aimed at reinforcing the strategic partnership between

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Cost–benefit analysis on the introduction of the Strategic Environmental Assessment in Cabo Verde

Last year a new Decree-Law for the introduction of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in Cape Verde was prepared, under the BIO-TUR project. The option of introducing the SEA needed to be deeply analyzed, in order to assess costs and benefits. The cost-benefit analysis, based on ecosystem services approach, has been finalized during the last month and the Final Report presented to UNDP Cape Verde Country Office and National Directorate of Environment. SEA should be introduced in the Country, to avoid negative

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Project and Financial management services for European Projects

In the last 10 years SETIN has gained extensive experience in the field of Project Management of complex projects and in Financial Management for the financial reporting, mainly European funded projects. Based on this experience, SETIN has developed a highly professional team that allows us to provide quality services in the following areas: • Project Management of European projects • Financial Management and Reporting of funded projects • Project Monitoring For more info you can write an e-mail to: mail@setinsrl.eu

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