Brussels Climate Week: "Nature-based solutions bridge circularity and biodiversity" (S.Goinfra, DG RTD)

"Nature-based solutions are a practical bridge between circularity and biodiversity, which still have separate political and practical agendas. They are also an entry point to a wider discussion about integrating nature more strongly into those policy areas and sectors that haven't traditionally done so much," said Susanna Goinfra, policy officer for Biodiversity and Nature-based Solutions at the European Commission's DG RTD.

On 15 October 2026, she was invited to a roundtable on innovative and circular solutions for nature, held during Brussels Climate Week.

As Lithuania will soon assume the rotating presidency of the European Council from 1 January 2027, Kristina Simonaitytė, environmental attaché to the Lithuanian permanent representation to the EU, said that even if a few unknowns…