S4, E20: Good News: Floating Neighbourhoods, EU Nature Credits, and Ecosia’s Burkina Faso Tree Revival
Gode nyheder: Flydende nabolag, EU-naturkreditter og Ecosias Burkina Fasos trægenoplivning
Flydende nabolag, økosia i Burkina Faso og EU's køreplan for naturkreditter
A short, sharp burst of optimism from the built environment. This episode: how floating neighbourhoods can power and protect themselves; why the EU wants to put nature on the balance sheet; and a hopeful update from Burkina Faso where smart water-harvesting is helping 29,000+ new trees thrive.
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Flydende kvarterer: Modern floating platforms are typically hollow, creating space for decentralised systems—wastewater and drinking-water treatment, on-board electricity storage, floating solar, even algae/seaweed biofuels. That off-grid setup boosts resilience and, placed offshore, these structures can also reduce wave energy to help protect coasts during storms.
“Floating structures… offer opportunities to become more self-supporting and off-grid—more resilient.” Rutger de Graaf, Blue21
Lyt med i hele episoden – Flydende futures her
Udlånt af Rutger de Graaf Flydende Pavillon
EU-naturkreditter: Brussels is sketching a roadmap to value nature directly—turning restoration outcomes into investable credits. As discussed in the episode, the aim is to mobilise private finance, reward those restoring ecosystems, and align business with biodiversity that underpins much of the economy.
"Vi er nødt til at sætte naturen på balancen ... naturkreditter kan mobilisere den private sektor til at investere og innovere." Brian MacSharry
Den fulde funktion udkommer den 9. september. Bogmærk denne side for link.
Økosia i Burkina Faso: In 2016, with partner Hommes et Terre, Ecosia planted 29,328 trees on a degraded savanna using traditional “half-moon” pits to capture scarce rain. Six years on, trees and grasses are back, soils are recovering, and wildlife is returning—funded in part by everyday searches.
Denne nyhed kom fra Ecosia på LinkedIn.
Udlånt af Ecosia-træer Burkina Faso
Transcript
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[00:00:09] Speaker B: This is Jackie De Burca for the Constructive Voices Good News podcast. A short, sharp burst of uplifting stories from the built environment with a dash of biodiversity. Now we’re all about highlighting positive solutions that have the potential to improve our world. Today we feature floating developments, the EU’s proposed nature credit System and and Ecosia’s work in Burkina Faso.
[00:00:33] Taler A: Dette er Constructive Voices.
[00:00:35] Rutger de Graaf: En af de fascinerende ting ved flydende strukturer er, at disse normalt er hule strukturer, fordi de skal være meget lette. Så vi laver for eksempel stål- eller betonfundamenter eller kompositmaterialer. Der findes forskellige materialer, vi kan bruge. Men ofte skaber disse strukturer en masse plads.
Og pladsen kan bruges til decentraliserede teknologier til spildevandsbehandling.
De kan bruges til decentraliseret drikkevandsbehandling. Pladsen på de flydende platforme kan bruges til lagring af elektricitet.
So floating structures by nature, they offer a lot of opportunities to become more self supporting, to become more off grid. We have also done for instance, a floating solar study. Floating solar is a great technology also to have floating energy generation.
We all know about the floating offshore wind. Of course we can also use floating algae and seaweed systems to produce floating biofuels. So floating urban development creates a lot of opportunities to implement decentralized concepts for water and energy.
Og i den forstand er det ikke nødvendigt at forbinde et flydende kvarter til kysten med et kloaksystem.
Så jeg tror, at det i sig selv skaber en form for modstandsdygtighed, fordi disse mindre strukturer er mere selvbærende, de er mindre sårbare end de enorme net.
If you have a power blackout or something, it has a big impact. But if neighbourhoods create their own, have their own system, it’s more redundant and more resilient.
Det er én ting.
Hvad vi også har set gennem vores mange års forskning i bølgebassintest er, at flydende strukturer reducerer bølgernes påvirkning af kysten.
Så i det øjeblik du begynder at skabe et flydende kvarter foran kysten, beskytter du også kysten mod storme, mod bølger.
Så udover at være oversvømmelsestilpassede, beskytter de også fastlandet mod oversvømmelser under ekstreme vejrforhold.
[00:02:31] Taler A: Dette er Constructive Voices.
[00:02:34] Jackie De Burca: Bruxelles er i gang med at sætte naturen på balancen. Idet EU afslører sin køreplan for naturkreditter, forklarer Brian McSherry, hvordan denne markedsdrevne tilgang kan frigøre private investeringer, belønne folk, der genopretter økosystemer, og markere et stort skridt fremad for stabilitet. Dyk ned i hele historien fra den 9. september på den konstruktive Voices-hjemmeside eller på din yndlingspodcast-app.
[00:02:57] Taler A: Dette er Constructive Voices.
[00:02:59] Jackie De Burca: Ursula von der Leyen var for eksempel en af dem, der gav debatindlæg naturligt nok efter dette. Og jeg har et citat fra hende her, og jeg synes, det er meget ligetil og meget let at forstå for en gennemsnitlig person. Vi er nødt til at sætte naturen på balancen. Det er præcis, hvad naturkreditter gør.
When well designed, they will provide an efficient, market driven instrument that encourages the private sector to invest and innovate. With investment and innovation, we generate revenue for those who work to protect nature.
[00:03:30] Brian MacSharry: Ja, jeg mener, jeg tror selvfølgelig, jeg er enig i alt, hvad du lige sagde fra præsidenten, men jeg synes, det er meget velformuleret, og jeg synes, det virkelig positionerer, hvad køreplanen sigter mod at være. Og jeg tror, du ved, at det her med at sætte naturen i balancen har været noget, som mange mennesker har talt om i et stykke tid.
There’s always been the how. And I think this roadmap is a step in that right direction, a big step, I would say. But for me, statements like that in the op ed I think is very clear. A lot of discussions and it was last September at a conference in Munich, the President said something about this, about nature credits was the first real public discourse about it. And she said something very similar at the time. And for me, when I read this and I listen to those different presentations, it’s very clear what the ambition from the European Union is about. This is put it on the balance sheet, it’s helping and it is really about protecting and restoring and mobilising the market to allow that and put in funding for nature and recognising the importance of nature and how it basically pays for itself. You know, we know nature is the cornerstone of our economy and businesses depend on it. The World Economic Forum, I think in 2020 said half the world’s GDP is moderately highly dependent on biodiversity. The rest of it still is, but maybe to a lower extent. So having any kind of conversation where it connects that business world to the rest of the nature world and the financing I think is to be supported.
[00:04:54] Taler A: Dette er Konstruktive stemmer.
[00:04:57] Jackie De Burca: Endelig en historie om søgemaskinen Ecosia.
[00:05:00] Taler A: Dette er Constructive Voices.
[00:05:03] Taler E: Lad os nu se på noget af det fantastiske arbejde, som søgemaskinen Ecosia udfører. I 2016 var denne savanne i Burkina Faso næsten bar. Så sammen med deres partnere Hommes a TerreEcosia plantede 29,328 træer. Regnen er sporadisk der, så de brugte halvmåner, en gammel teknik, der holder vand i gruber for at hjælpe unge træer med at overleve. Seks år senere vokser træer og græsarealer, jorden er ved at komme sig, og dyrelivet vender tilbage. Når du bruger Ecosia, hjælper dine søgninger med at beskytte disse træer. Og de vil fortsætte med at gøre det i mange år fremover.
