66 means that general social services provided by woodland and nature (e.g. offering a habitat for flora and fauna and supporting and connecting eco-systems) are paid for from generic (national) subsidies, while local services (such as offering recreational space for the local sports association) are paid for directly or indirectly by the local users of these services. In addition, it is important to reinforce the support base for nature use and to introduce practicable, clear and generally accepted methods for financing and pricing products and services. Step 4: Selection of new financing opportunities Opportunities for innovative forms of financing can currently be sought in three directions: A. Experimental pilots with new services / products and additional forms of financing; B. Improving the financing and working of existing services; C. Focused efforts to upscale and broaden successful pilots. Concrete opportunities (subjects) are identified below for each direction. These opportunities have been selected on the basis of literature, interviewers with people with practical experience and experts as well as positive experiences with (frequently one-off) pilots in the Netherlands and abroad. A. Experimental pilots with new services /products and additional financing methods • Wellness, care and health: (1) start up initiatives analogous to the wellness farm and retreat farm, (2) further upscaling of cemeteries in a natural setting; • Shareholdership in woodland and nature areas and new concepts for reinvesting construction profits in new green development: experimenting with concepts like those currently being elaborated by the National Green Fund; • CO2 capture/storage in soil and vegetation: develop a method for financing/valuation and monitoring; • Wind turbines in the woods: start up pilots and mobilize political and social support; • Raw material for the bio-based economy: (1) promote development and dissemination of knowledge on processing and upgrading biomass into high-grade (energy) products, (2) start up pilots with less-known raw materials and applications. B. Improve the financing and working of existing services • Commercialize recreation by adopting a more customized regional approach, linking concrete services to payment, introducing positive incentives to cater more closely to specific recreational needs, and a more objective/realistic matching of payment (revenues) and costs; • Financing of routes: start up pilots for the regional creation and financing of recreational routes; • Water treatment: identify bottlenecks impeding the introduction of charging for water services (political support, interests of water companies) and analyse successful practical examples from abroad and translate to the Dutch situation. Pagina 74

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