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State of Finance for Nature 2022 Report
The second edition of the State of Finance for Nature report launched today reveals that nature-based solutions are still significantly under-financed. If the world wants to halt biodiversity loss, limit climate change to below 1.5C and achieve land degradation neutrality by 2030, current finance
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Georgian Biodiversity Database
This internet resource aims to introduce the world-wide scientific (and not only scientific) community to the biological diversity of Georgia (and, to certain extent, the Caucasus ecoregion).
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Editorial Article on Human-Nature Interactions: Perspectives on Conceptual and Methodological Issues
Frontiers in Psychology editorial article. Publication Date: 19 Nov 2020 Author(s): Tadhg E. MacIntyre, Juergen Beckmann, Giovanna Calogiuri, Aoife A. Donnell, Marc V. Jones, Christopher R. Madan, Mike Rogerson, Noel E. Brick, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen and Christopher James Gidlow
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Smart, Sustainable and Resilient cities: the Power of Nature-based Solutions
Despite being engines of development, innovation and interaction, cities can also exacerbate some of the world's most serious environmental and socio-economic challenges. It is therefore necessary that cities are planned and designed with nature in mind. Nature-based solutions (NbS) are
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CONEXUS Policy Brief 11 - Urban Wetland protection and restoration Learning from Bogotá’s conservation and co-management policies
Wetlands are ecosystems of great ecological and cultural richness. However, throughout Latin America and Europe, human activities such as cattle ranching, agriculture and urbanisation have destroyed many of these ecosystems. Based on the concrete experience of the city of Bogotá, this document
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Strengthening equity in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: a guide for negotiators
The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) will be a major milestone in global agreements on biodiversity conservation, setting international ambition for the next decade. This guide is intended to support Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) who wish to see strengthened
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ÁLTALÁNOS: Természetalapú Megoldások: Lehetőség a változtatásra - esély a változásra
Az információs füzet közérthetően mutatja be a TAM fogalmát, a kapcsolódó elméleti és szakpolitikai hátteret, emellett jó példákon, bevált gyakorlatokon keresztül inspirációt is nyújt a TAM alkalmazásához. A kiadványt a Külgazdasági és Külügyminisztérium megbízásából az Interreg V-A Románia-
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Providing contact with nature for young generation - A case study of preschools in the City of Poznań, Poland
Contact with nature is valuable for the health, wellbeing and development of children. Meanwhile, the urban environment and the contemporary urban lifestyle limit the opportunity for contact with nature. Given that children aged three to six years spend a significant amount of time in preschool, we
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Exploring ecosystem services and nature-based solutions to urban problems
The purpose of this learning scenario is to explore an urban ecosystem of a city, analysing its ecosystem services and determining whether it acts as a nature-based solution (NbS) to challenges such as diminishing biodiversity, urban heat islands and urban decay. Although this learning scenario
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The Health Benefits of Natural Spaces
The city of the future needs to be a green city. Several scientific studies associate green spaces -urban parks, gardens, tree-lined streets or forests, among others- with numerous health benefits in adults, such as a reduction of stress, a longer life or a better general and
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Becoming #GenerationRestoration: Ecosystem Restoration for People, Nature and Climate
To launch the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, UNEP and FAO published the report "Becoming #GenerationRestoration: Ecosystem Restoration for People, Nature and Climate", which synthesizes evidence of the state of degradation of the world’s ecosystems and details the economic,
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Protected Planet
The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is a joint project between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), managed by UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC).The dataset described here shows the global
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Nature-based solutions for flood mitigation and coastal resilience: Analysis of EU-funded projects
This document summarises outcomes relating to flood mitigation and coastal resilience from the report ‘Nature-based Solutions: State of the Art in EU-funded Projects’ (Wild et al. (Eds.) 2020) prepared through the EC’s Valorisation of NbS Projects Initiative. EU research and innovation projects
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COMDEKS
In the long-term, the COMDEKS Country Programme Landscape Strategy for Slovakia aims to increase the resilience of target natural ecosystems and human production systems through partnership-based community activities which promote eco-system functions and increase landscape diversity.
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GrowGreen report: Intervention Conclusions - Wroclaw
This report details the interventions and outcomes of the Wroclaw GrowGreen project, funded as part of the European Commission’s 2016 Smart Cities and Communities Call for “Demonstrating Innovative Nature-Based Solutions in Cities”. . This report presents the challenges and results from the work in
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The Purpose of Nature’s Impact on Human Health Guide
The Nature’s Impact on Human Health Guide is a resource primarily intended for practitioners seeking to evaluate the impact of green interventions on human health to inspire additional investment of time and resources in nature-based solutions to human health challenges. The reasons to do so are
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Social media listening
Extensive methods of socio cultural valuation. Just taking profit of the fact that people explain a lot what do they like and do on social networks. Hashtags and geotags from Instagram, Twitter, and Facebbok can be great location based sources of information! Text analysis software can help to
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Public procurement of Nature-Based Solutions
Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) can be a powerful tool for cities dealing with the contemporary sustainability challenges including degradation of natural capital and ecosystem services, vulnerability to climate change and natural disasters, as well as corresponding health and wellbeing issues. NbS
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NetworkNature Factsheet: Seizing opportunities for ecosystem restoration to tackle societal challenges
This factsheet explores the potential of ecosystem restoration actions to halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems. Building on the outcomes of the last NetworkNature semester theme on Nature-based solutions for Ecosystem Restoration, the factsheet provides an analysis of several restoration
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Towards sustainable food systems in the Mediterranean : the role of metropolitan agriculture
A document to addresses urban and peri-urban agriculture from a critical, proposal-oriented perspective. This report addresses urban and peri-urban agriculture from a critical, proposal-oriented perspective and with a special focus on Mediterranean metropolitan areas. Building from existing
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