On March 22nd PROGRESS partners and their stakeholders met on-line for the 3rd Interregional Thematic Seminar to propose Good Practices in the third thematic stream: Explore innovative financial and marketing mechanisms for payment for ecosystem services. The seminar is the starting point for the selection of best good practices, PROGRESS third Handbook, and the content for 3rd Interregional Training Workshop on-line, conducted by Craiova University on May 25th (see events section).

10 cases were presented from Latvia, Ireland, Hungary, Romania, Italy and Catalonia covering a variety of topics related to PES – Payment for Ecosystem Services:

• Greenhouse Gas Emission Calculation in farms
• Pollination in Farmland
• Natural Capital Accounting
• Urban Bee Paths
• Ecosystem Services Valuation in Protected Areas
• Rural Development Program in Tuscany – Payments for agro-climatic-environmental commitments
• Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
• Community Supported Afforestation
• Supportive national taxation system for private forests
• Water and forest conservation at watershed level

You can visit PROGRESS twitter account for some more details on these Good Practices, or check the string with the hashtag #PESPROGRESS.

The official website of the project: http://www.interregeurope.eu/progress/

More information: buni.rtu.lv/interreg-eu-progress