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Coastal regions are among the most productive and biodiverse environments with important, though often underestimated, carbon storage potential. They also present some of the highest densities of human populations, biodiversity and natural capital, and cultural heritage in the world. Unfortunately, these coastal regions are experiencing unprecedented degradation, developing and urbanizing faster than inland regions.
Subsequently, coastal systems serve as excellent candidates to demonstrate EU Green Deal benefits. REST-COAST is developing an urgently needed new approach to impact adaptation and climate mitigation by upscaling coastal restoration. The initiative’s approach to climate adaptation is facilitating replication of large-scale coastal restoration while introducing coastal ecosystem services into national and international policies, reducing disaster risk, supporting biodiversity, and strengthening ecosystem services. The initiative is achieving this by bringing together 35+ partners across Europe and West Asia to address urgent coastal problems such as erosion and flooding from storms and accelerating coastal habitat degradation, while also ensuring the survival of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture.
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- Oceans and coasts
- Mitigates Climate Change
- Reduces Disaster Risks
- Safeguards Biodiversity
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REST-COAST will demonstrate to what extent upscaled coastal restoration can provide a low carbon solution to climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction for threatened low-lying coastal systems, with gains in their biodiversity status. More specifically, this project aims to:
- Develop a databased on costal restoration project and performance to inform technical support.
- Establish a framework for funding and finance arrangements for coastal degradation.
- Create scalable plans for adaptation through restoration to close the implementation gap.
- Governance roadmaps and policy recommendations at national and EU/international levels.
- Disseminate information regarding restoration through workshops, conferences, papers, and other training materials.
The REST-COAST project is part of the EU Green Deal Restoration Cluster. The ‘Restoration Cluster’, a collaborative initiative of four major EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation project funded under the Green Deal and focusing on ecosystem restoration: MERLIN (restoration of freshwater-related ecosystems in a landscape context), REST-COAST (restoration of coastal ecosystems), SUPERB (forest and forest landscape restoration) and WaterLANDS (restoration of wetlands).
