GoNaturePositive! Roadmapping Workshop – Blue Economy

This workshop, hosted by the Western Development Commission (WDC), will bring together regional and national stakeholders working across the Blue Economy to collaboratively explore long-term opportunities and pathways for a nature-positive future.

We encourage you to share this invitation widely within your networks – we aim to have representatives from NGOs, policy makers, businesses, investors, and academia to ensure a diverse and impactful discussion.

The event forms part of GoNaturePositive!, an EU-funded initiative coordinated by Trinity College Dublin that is advancing a Nature-Positive Economy by uniting 20 partners across 14 countries, including research institutions, non-profits and environmental organisations such as the WDC, Oxford University, WWF and ICLEI Europe. The project aims to define what a nature-positive economy looks like in practice, develop policy and governance pathways to achieve it, and demonstrate the benefits of nature-positive approaches for people, places and ecosystems.

Agenda

10:00 – 10:10 | Welcome and overview

10:10 – 10:25 | GoNaturePositive! and WDC introduction

10:25 – 11:00 | Proposing alternative vision statements (plenary) – Brainstorming and clustering vision statements

11:00 – 11:15 | Short break

11:15 – 11:25 | Clusters review, discussion and voting

11:25 – 11:55 | Detailing alternative vision statements (small group discussions) – Refining vision statements and discussing breakdown over time

11:55 – 12:25 | Defining indicators for the alternative vision

12:25 – 12:35 | Short break

12:35 – 12:55 | Plenary discussion – Reporting back from small group discussions

12:55 – 13:00 | Wrap up and next steps

We very much hope you will be able to join us.

Parking: Hynes Yard Car Park, Merchants Rd, Galway, G | Parkpnp