Make a stronger case for nature-based solutions.
The Invest4Nature Decision Support Toolbox helps you explore the economic case for nature-based solutions, understand their wider benefits and learn from existing examples. Use one tool on its own, or combine them to build a broader picture of an NbS investment or project.
You might be weighing up an urban greening investment, comparing different options, trying to understand benefits that are difficult to express in Euros, or simply looking for examples of what others have done. The Toolbox gives you three ways in.
1 - Understand the economics
Use the Cost-Benefit Analyser to compare costs and benefits over time, explore cost-effectiveness and test how changes in key assumptions affect the result.
2 - Explore wider performance
Use the Performance Assessment tool to explore qualitative indicators linked to environmental, social and sustainability benefits.
3 - Find relevant examples
Use the Recommender System to describe what you are looking for in everyday language and discover relevant nature-based solution case studies.
Compare costs and benefits, test cost-effectiveness and explore uncertainty.
Explore qualitative indicators and see how an NbS may contribute to environmental and social outcomes
Describe what you are looking for in plain language and explore relevant NbS case studies.
The Toolbox is designed for people involved in planning, funding, designing, evaluating or communicating nature-based solutions - including municipalities and public authorities, practitioners, investors and funders, nature-based enterprises, researchers and consultants. The Recommender System also provides a useful entry point for people without specialist technical knowledge.
The Toolbox helps organise evidence, compare options and make assumptions more visible. Results still need to be interpreted in the context of the place, project and people involved. Local knowledge, stakeholder priorities and professional judgement remain important.
