Nactiva, a joint platform for protecting and regenerating natural capital in the Mediterranean, and the Climate Resilience Centre have sealed a strategic partnership to kick off a new project forming part of Nactiva’s Water area and aimed at developing transformative solutions for adapting the Ebro Delta to climate challenges.
Coordinated by Eurecat, the Climate Resilience Centre is an international leader in research and innovation for adaptation to the climate emergency, delivering transformational solutions across areas such as ecosystem protection, the circular economy and digitalisation. Hence the partnership seeks to combine efforts and knowledge to address the environmental and social challenges impacting the region which is experiencing serious sustainability issues due to the degradation of its ecosystems resulting from factors related to global change.
Against this background, the two organisations have embarked on a project to develop a strategic and shared vision with local stakeholders for integrated landscape regeneration, emphasising the connection between water and biodiversity. The work will include concrete proposals for wetland restoration and creating green infrastructures coupled with transforming economic activities towards regenerative models. Bioeconomy and ecosystem services opportunities will further be identified to attract funding.
“The Ebro Delta is an area of exceptional biodiversity that needs to be protected and regenerated to ensure it and the communities which rely on it can survive,” says Nactiva CEO Joan Cabezas. “We know it faces complex challenges but we are also convinced that bringing together various actors such as the Climate Resilience Centre is the key to putting transformative initiatives in place. This agreement takes us closer to the goal of unlocking concrete and viable solutions to restore these unique ecosystems and secure their resilience in the future.”
“The agreement with Nactiva is designed to help make the Ebro Delta more resilient to climate change by rolling out a strategy for regenerating the landscape and enhancing its natural capital,” adds Carles Ibañez, director of the Climate Resilience Centre.
To this end, “we will partner with key stakeholders in the territory to foster the bioeconomy and the restoration of natural capital by crafting a portfolio of compelling projects to raise private and public funds for their implementation.”
The partnership “will help to turn the Ebro Delta into a flagship area in the regenerative economy by delivering maximum added value and synergies between agriculture, fishing, aquaculture, ecotourism and nature conservation.”
