THE GREEN LINK (LIFE15 CCA/ES/000125) Replication activities and future opportunities Sven Kallen, General Director Volterra Ecosystems SL Final Conference, Barcelona, February 17th, 2020 1 Replication: Originally foreseen in 3 demonstration countries (Greece, Spain, Italy). Portugal was added Foreseen 6.000 Cocoons (1.000 to each partner’s demo area) In total 7.500 Cocoons were distributed Divided over 58 small & large reforestation projects Greece: 9 Spain: 21 Italy: 26 (of which 13 in “Biocity Engineering” project) Portugal: 2 2 Replication: Requirements: Contract/agreement with local landowner / NGO Maintenance promise & Monitoring For the big reforestations in Spain LLC and Volterra did monitoring themselves Field monitoring (app, ruler and 3 GPS-device Replication: GREECE N° of Name of replicator Area cocoons Surfaces (ha) planted in reclaimed land Public Power Corporation/ (Munipality of Eordaia) 350 0,875 Environmental Unit after open mining operation closure in reclaimed land Public Power Corporation/ (Munipality of 450 1,125 Environmental Unit Amyntaio) after open mining operation reafforested areas in Municipality of Kozani 35 0,0875 Municipality of Kozani Forest Department of Kozani in cooperation with Forest areas of Voio 100 0,25 Municipality of Voio Αgronomist/ farmer in Kozani Kozani 15 0,0375 Cooperation of foresters in Eratyra 10 0,025 Eratyra Cooperation of foresters in Kozani/Servia 20 0,05 Kozani Municipal Unit of Ag. Agios Dimitrios/ Kozani 10 0,025 Dimitrios (Kozani) 4 Farmers in Mikrokastro Mikrokastro 10 0,025 Replication: SPAIN Fundació Emys Catalonia (Girona) 150 0,8 Valdepeñas (Ciudad Fundación Fire 15 0,5 Real) San Martín de la Vega WWF 10 0,1 (Madrid) LIFE Tecmine (Vaersa y Ademús (València) 20 3 Universitat d'Alacant) Institution of the Herería de Gran Canarias 100 0,2 Aguas de Arucas y Firgas IES INGENIO Gran Canarias 20 0,04 Fund. Foresta Gran Canarias 13 0,1 Gran Canarias TAMADABA S.L (Redondo de 0,2 Guayedra) Mogan Bonito association Gran Canarias 15 0,01 Fundación Patrimonio Finca "Cortijo Nuevo", Natural, Biodiversidad y Fuente Grande, 100 150 Cambio Global / Antonio Chirivel, Almería Maurandi (owner) Fundación Patrimonio Natural, Biodiversidad y Paraje de los Corrales, 500 10 Cambio Global / Almócita, Almería 5 Ayuntamiento de Almócita Replication: SPAIN Accionatura/Ecoherencia Alella (Catalonia) 25 0,2 Fundación San Cebrián Palencia 50 0,25 LIFE project Olivares Vivos Sevilla 25 0,25 (SEO Birdlife & Ibero-Rest) Conesa and Fundación Global Badajoz 25 0,25 Nature LIFE Regenerate Salamanca 20 0,2 LIFE16/ENV/ES0027 Fundacion Naturaleza y Salamanca 1000 2 Hombre Padilla de Abajo/Fundación Burgos 250 0,5 Oxígeno Nava de la Asunción & Junta de Castilla y León Villanueva de Duero 1000 5 (Segovia) Matamorisca / Aguilar de Palencia 1000 25 Campoo Fresno de Rodilla Burgos 1000 100 6 Replication: ITALY Città dei ragazzi, Comune di Cosenza 40 0,3 Cosenza IPLA Basse di Sutra (Turin) 60 1,57 Agricultural Company Brindisi (Apulia) 50 1,5 Guaceto Osservatorio di lunga Nucleo di Ricerca sulla durata Berchidda- Desertificazione Monti e azienda 40/65 dell'Università degli Studi di Didattico Sperimentale Sassari "Mauro Deidda" Sassari,Sardinia CREA Cecina (Tuscany) 60 1 Biocity Engineering srl Pietraperzia (Enna), N/A. Path of +Associazione Trasversale Antica Trasversale 40 600km Sicula Sicula 7 Replication: ITALY Biocity Eng + Vincenzo di Isola delle Femmine 20 13,5 Dio/LIPU Master student univ. / corpo forestale/parco naturale Isola Isola di Montecristo di Montecristo IIS "Cardarelli" Tarquinia - Lazio 12 na LIFE Desert-Adapt (REAM Srl Lampedusa, 160 0,65/0,02 & Comune di Lampedusa) Caltanissetta LIFE Desert-Adapt Lampedusa e Linosa (Lampedusa B) Sempre Verde Pro Natura Ventotene & Santo 50 Latina #REFOREST Stefano 200 linear Ente Parco Nazionale del metres of Dune nel Circeo Circeo degraded dune Tenuta dir scientifico/ Presidenza 8 Castelporziano/ 6000 della Repubblica cerasolo Replication: details website Importance of maintenance Monitoring on regular basis (results Final Report) 9 Monitoring innovation: 10 Future opportunities: After LIFE activities All partners continue promoting Cocoon & reforestation Continuation of Replication activities Sales of Cocoons in Spain & Portugal (Volterra) Promotion of Layman’s report 2 new LIFE projects were approved (20k Cocoons) 11 Future opportunities: Reforestation activities outside of LIFE are expanding fast in Spain (LLC & Volterra) From 0 trees in 2017 to 250.000 planted in 2018 2019 growth to 500.000 trees 2020 forecast is 1,5 million trees 2021 and beyond high growth expected in Southern Europe 12 So let’s plant! Volterra Ecosystems Balmes 76, 1-2 (08007 Barcelona) Tel: +34.93.272 47 90 www.volterra.bio Please follow #TheGreenLink @Volterra_ecosys @volterraecosystems @lifeterra_europe 13.