One World, One Health, One Prevention!
A workshop to better understand the interactions between environmental change and climate change and the risk of zoonotic emergence in Belgium
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BiodiversiScape: Inviting biodiversity into every consideration of landscape and buildings!
- Greening of buildings
- Use of environmentally friendly materials
- Integration of biodiversity in organisational processes
- Greening of sites
Belgium is densely populated and highly urbanized, which fragments the habitats of animals and plants. This hinders their reproduction, food supply, and movement, and contributes to biodiversity loss. The federal BiodiversiScape programme of FPS Health aims to address this issue. By strengthening the green-blue network in and around cities, biodiversity is restored and the resilience of ecosystems is increased.
Four federal partners – Defense, NMBS, Infrabel, and the Buildings Agency – are making their sites available for biodiversity-friendly interventions in (re)development, construction, and renovation projects. Examples include de-sealing parking lots, replacing exotic plants with native alternatives, installing green roofs, and using sustainable materials in renovations.
In time, project developers and construction promoters from the private sector will also be more than welcome to join the movement.
Thematic Articles
Regenerative development and design: improving governance, innovation and planetary health
Humans have pushed several planetary boundaries out of their safe operating space and inequalities within and between countries are rising… Our current societal and environmental challenges require a meta-response. This is what Regenerative Development and Design (RDD) aims to bring.
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Giving back to nature more than we take away
As part of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Federal Public Service for Public Health, Food Chain Safety and the Environment organized a High-Level event on the crucial role of nature and biodiversity in building a sustainable future. Entitled “Regenerative development for transformative change”, the event, which took place in Brussels on April 11, was built around a central message: “Giving back to nature more than we take away”.
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Enhancing collaboration at European Union borders
Officers from customs, animal and plant health authorities, and environmental authorities convened in Brussels on 14 March for an event focusing on improving border controls for Invasive Alien Species. Effective border controls are a key element in preventing their introduction into the European Union. This event was jointly organised by the Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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UN and EU presidency share the same priorities at UNEA-6
From 26 February to 1 March, the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), the world’s highest-level decision-making body for environment, met in Nairobi, Kenya. This sixth session (UNEA-6) envisaged how multilateral actions can help tackle the triple crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
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