Goals
Improve coastal restoration practice and techniques through new hands-on restoration projects within the REST-COAST Pilots, supported by Restoration Platforms to demonstrate and scale-up measures for wider use.
Generate new tools and data to assess risk reduction at different climate change levels to provide consistent risk estimates across time scales and lower financial, social and political barriers to large scale restoration.
Design innovative financial arrangements and bankable business plans that support restoration upscaling by introducing co-financing options and long-term plans based on strategic investment pathways.
Develop a scalable plan for coastal adaptation through large scale restoration based on trade-offs and synergies between biodiversity and socio-economic development, aiming for financially viable solutions incorporating climate-resilient ecosystem services.
Co-design innovative governance arrangements and policies to overcome present barriers to large scale restoration and promote transformative changes in governance at all levels: from local to national and EU.
Support the Green Deal social transformation and engagement through a new Digital Platform dashboard, a Carbon Footprint Counter and a new App and Video game focusing on decarbonisation of coastal adaptation.
Engage with project stakeholders, EU Green Deal officers and international organisations to transfer REST-COAST restoration tools, data and expertise and demo material and ensure their uptake and exploitation.
