NBS Knowledge Database
Introduction to the database
As the recognition of the potential Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) grows, so too does the need for a robust evidence base and business case across contexts. If NBS are to deliver on their predicted potential, decision-makers will require tools to communicate, promote and invest in interventions and policy. Currently, the tools available are usually sector-specific due to a lack of meta-analyses of the research, policy, projects and market-based resources available. With Europe producing much of these resources, the region is a fertile foundation point to analyse the state of the NBS landscape worldwide.
NetworkNature, funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme, is a resource for the NBS community, creating opportunities for local, regional and international cooperation to maximise the impact and spread of NBS. NetworkNature has mapped European research, policy, projects and market-based tools, collating information on the stakeholders involved and topics covered; also, in parallel, has identified relevant international resources. As this is the first mapping of this scale to be performed (other mappings have been limited in sector, region and resource type), the methodology of mapping is in itself a reportable result. Due to the different types of resources, three separate mappings of global academia and projects, policy and market-based were undertaken and then combined to form this database.
For facilitation of access to information, this database is also accompanied by:
Nature-Based Solutions knowledge gaps: that compiles evidence base for NBS gap analysis to help identify future avenues for research.
Database of EU research and innovation projects on Nature-Based Solutions: that gathers European R&I projects on NBS from several major European research and innovation or implementation programmes.
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Displaying 201 - 300 of 874
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Clever Cities
Description: This deliverable describes the barriers and success factors to successfully co-create nature-based solutions(NbS). The potential positive interactions of environmental, economic and social systems lie at the heart of NbS. The interventions planned within the CLEVER Cities...
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Global
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Clever Cities
Description: Looking at CLEVER solutions to bring NbS from innovation to market, the report is divided into three sections: Governance Models for NbS, Business Models for NbS and Financing Models for NbS. All three sections of this report tie together to support the creators of NbS projects...
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Global
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Clever Cities
Description: To provide insight into the market environment of the urban NbS, this report analyses: green roofs, vegetated noise barriers and urban gardening. This report details the political, economics, social, technological, environmental and the legal environment of the selected NbS....
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Europe
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HafenCity University Hamburg
Description: The paper identifies and discusses the main emerging factors and challenges from (1) a procedural and methodological perspective and (2) concerning the different roles of the diverse stakeholders involved.
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Europe
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The Nature Conservancy
Description: This platform provides guides and tools based on The Blue Guide for Coastal Resilience. This Guide enables disaster risk reduction practitioners to learn about how nature-based solutions (NbS) can protect people and property specifically in coastal areas. NbS in coastal areas...
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Global
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Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center
Description: Mission: The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) is dedicated to fostering synthetic, actionable science related to the structure, functioning, and sustainability of socio-environmental systems.
Scope:
Global
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PEDRR
Description: PEDRR is the clearinghouse for knowledge, training, advocacy and practice on Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR). Eco-DRR is the sustainable management, conservation and restoration of ecosystems to reduce disaster risk, with the aim to achieve sustainable and...
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Global
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CARTIF Technology Centre
Description: This report aims to provide a clear and a comprehensive framework for the development of business models for Nature-based Solutions that can be used by cities. This document describes:
- the outcomes of the desk research on relevant projects and publications on NbS business...
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Global
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University of Melbourne
Description: Cities globally are greening their urban fabric, but to contribute positively to the biodiversity extinction crisis, local governments must explicitly target actions for biodiversity. We apply the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (...
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Global
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University of Manchester
Description: The Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) concept is the most recent entry to discussions around how “nature” can be mobilized to render urban areas more resilient to the threat of climate change. The concept has been championed by the European Commission (EC) as a tool that can...
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Global
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URBAN GreenUP
Description: URBAN GreenUP is a project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. Its objective is the development, application and replication of Renaturing Urban Plans in a number of European and non-European partner cities with the aim to mitigate the effects of climate...
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Global
Main entity:
CARTIF Technology Centre
Description: In order to be able to select the best options to introduce them in the development of a RUP, allowing the definition of different scenarios, which have been evaluated to define its viability and impact to improve the behaviour of the city regarding the climate change challenges...
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Global
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RMIT Centre for Urban Research
Description: The Urban GreenUP ‘NbS Selection Tool’ has been designed to help local governments choose from the many NbS options in our NbS catalogue. This tool is a decision support tool – it’s designed to give suggestions that may help improve you choose the right NbS for you, based on...
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Global
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Bocconi University
Description: This paper critically analyses the methodologies that can be adopted to value ecosystem services (ESs) at the urban level through a literature review. While literature on ES valuation has grown in recent years, its application to urban contexts is still limited. Twenty-five...
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Global
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UN Global Compact
Description: This article's focus is calling on all companies to support greater action in support of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate highlighting the importance of nature for addressing the climate crisis as one of the major deliverables for the UN Climate Action Summit.
Scope:
Global
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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This issue brief focuses on the importance of conserving healthy soil, which defining elements are:
The health of soils is dependent on the variety of organisms they contain, known as soil biodiversity.
The amount of soil biodiversity determines the productivity of land, and...
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Global
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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: Without biodiversity, there is no business. Companies are therefore major players in this landscape and are responsible for their impact on biodiversity and ecosystem services. But, in order to act responsibly, they need information on where these biodiversity impact-related...
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Global
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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: IUCN’s Common ground report shows how soil and landscape biodiversity can benefit society and help overcome major challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and food and water insecurity.
Scope:
Global
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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This Guide offers the environmental authorities of each country technical guidance documents for proper environmental management of low and moderate impact projects for infrastructure sector activities. This environmental management instrument includes provisions, guidelines and...
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Global
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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: Countries are responding to the economic impacts of COVID by allocating trillions of dollars to fiscal stimulus packages and beginning to develop longer-term economic recovery programs. Governments are likely to invest much more to get economies and societies back in shape over...
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Global
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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This article highlights the role of nature and nature-based solutions to urban challenges in an urbanizing world with a growing population.
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Global
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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This issue brief focuses on the benefits and risks of rewilding and how the misuse of the increasingly popular rewilding concept risks alienating communities, harming existing biodiversity and undermining confidence in a technique with enormous conservation potential.
Scope:
Global
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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This issue brief focuses on Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) and how involving the conservation, sustainable management and restoration of ecosystems can help people adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Scope:
Global
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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: Evidence shows that there are direct links between environmental pressures and gender-based violence and that the degradation of nature, competition over increasingly scarce resources and environmental crime can all exacerbate violence.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: IUCN Global Standard on Nature-based Solutions User Group will provide those who have registered the IUCN NbS self-assessment tool and relevant updates on the tool and the Global Standrad.
Scope:
Global
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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: IUCN Issues Briefs provide key information on selected issues central to IUCN’s work. They are aimed at policy-makers, journalists or anyone looking for an accessible overview of the often complex issues related to nature conservation and sustainable development.
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Global
Main entity:
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This issue brief focuses on the importance of redirecting governmental economic stimuli funding to nature, to avoid recovery investments risk exacerbating the biodiversity and climate crises and ultimately damaging economies.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This issue brief focuses on cost-effective, no-regret solutions nature can provide to disasters, complementing conventional engineering measures such as sea walls and storm channels.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This document provides guidance on the use of IUCN Global Standard on Nature-based Solutions: A user-friendly framework for the verification, design and scaling up of Nature-based Solutions.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: The IUCN Global Standard on Nature-based Solutions provides a user-friendly framework for the verification, design and scaling up of Nature-based Solutions.
Scope:
Global
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Amigos de los parques
Description: Amigos de los parques es una corporación que nace para cuidar y poner en valor los Parques Nacionales de la Patagonia.
Scope:
Global
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Think Nature
Description: Nature-based solutions can help overcome urban sustainability challenges by providing services, creating benefits and holding value for different urban actors. However, the development of nature-based solutions is hampered by a number of barriers that relate to the value...
Scope:
Global
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Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Description: This tool aims to support decision-making on NbS by allowing the simulation and visualisation of ecosystem service-based costs and benefits scenarios through a graphical user-friendly interface.
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Global
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Nature4Cities
Description: Are you a practitioner, urban planner or decision-maker looking for new business, governance and financing models to support your NbS project implementation? Our Implementation Models (IM) Preselector helps you build the models fitting your context by providing you with...
Scope:
Global
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Nature4Cities
Description: Platform presenting data about different solutions implemented
Scope:
Global
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TECNALIA
Description: In this report, the different urban and environmental governance models have been mapped and characterized in order to assess their suitability for different NbS projects. Five clusters have been identified and distributed according to the involved actors (government, community...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
DuneWorks
Description: Nature4Cities has developed a knowledge repository and various tools that enable practitioners in the uptake of NBSs in various ways. This handbook is particularly suited for government officials, practitioners, and project coordinators working in the public domain who are not...
Scope:
Europe
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University of Bordeaux
Description: In the context of climate change, Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs), a recently developed concept, are increasingly considered as part of the adaptation strategies of the cities. Studies using expert models and methods (EMM) receive a great deal of scientific attention. Considering...
Scope:
Europe
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Nature4Cities
Description: In this section, you will find thematic papers and academic publications written in the scope of the Nature4Cities european project.
Scope:
Europe
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Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Description: This paper aims to identify the nexuses between urban challenges (UC), ecosystem services (ES) and NbS, discuss their plausible causal relationships, and how these relationships can be affected by urban context conditions.
Scope:
Global
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Université de Nantes
Description: In urban areas, soil functions are deeply impacted by all human activities, e.g., water infiltration, carbon storage, and chemical substances degradation potential. In this context, nature-based solutions (NbS) are assumed to deliver multiple environmental benefits for soil...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
DuneWorks
Description: This step-by-step guide is developed for practitioners responsible for implementing Nature-Based Solutions. The guide follows a user-centric approach based on the assumption that citizen and stakeholder engagement is not just one step to be taken, but a necessary transversal...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Description: Embedding nature-based solutions (NbS) in cities is expected to bring quantifiable benefits, including resilience to flooding, drought, and heatwaves, and air quality improvement. Among NbS, green roofs have an important role in temperature regulation in buildings and in...
Scope:
Europe
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Cerema
Description: This is a database produced from 57 documents on NbS through the Nature4Cities project.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Nature4Cities
Description: This interactive tool visualizes the urban NbS and the urban challenges.
Scope:
Global
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InnoForESt
Description: InnoForESt supports the governance of viable innovations and a multi-actor network by building on pioneer policy tools and business models, by establishing new alliances, and by involving key stakeholders from forest and forest-related policy, administration and business. The...
Scope:
Europe
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EKLIPSE
Description: This document provides the main outcomes of the "Social innovation and nature-based solutions" workshop. The aim of this participatory workshop was to explore how nature-based solutions (NbS) can be a response to, or a catalyst for, social innovation to address emerging issues...
Scope:
Global
An impact evaluation framework to support planning and evaluation of nature-based solutions projects
Main entity:
EKLIPSE Expert Working Group
Description: This report explores the multiple dimensions of the impact that NbS projects may have when implemented at different scales, from building to regional.
Scope:
Global
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EKLIPSE
Description: EKLIPSE is a developed mechanism for supporting better decisions on environment based on the best available knowledge.
Scope:
Global
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NAIAD
Description: The main objective of this handbook is to guide the development of investable NbS propositions and bankable NbS projects for both public and private investors through different modes of governance, funding and implementation arrangements. The methodology it proposes - the...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
National University of Singapore
Description: The Centre’s mission is to produce policy-relevant science on nature-based climate solutions – tackling climate change by protecting and better managing natural ecosystems – to address knowledge gaps, build capacity and deliver pragmatic solutions and innovations to inform...
Scope:
Asia
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HYDROUSA
Description: This document provides an overview of current efforts for a circular water economy in Europe, including demonstration cases and policy initiatives. It also describes barriers to adoption of nature-based wastewater treatment for resource recoveries as experienced by practitioners...
Scope:
Global
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Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology
Description: This paper provides an overview of the recent work mapping and assessing ecosystem service in Malta and the implications for decision-making. Research has focused on the identification and mapping of ecosystems, and ecosystem condition, the capacity to deliver key ecosystem...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
ReNature
Description: reNature utilizes the vast potential of Regenerative Agroforestry in fighting today’s most pressing challenges, such as climate change, poverty, biodiversity loss, and food insecurity. We rethink the way farming is currently done going beyond sustainability by designing and...
Scope:
Global
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Technical University of Munich
Description: The mission of the chair is the analysis of hydrological data and processes and the development of applied hydrological models for the sustainable management of water resources in Bavaria, Germany and worldwide.
Scope:
Europe, Global
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Saint Mary's University
Description: We know that coastal communities in Atlantic Canada are at risk from the hazards of climate change. This can have serious implications for people’s homes, livelihoods and the economy. TransCoastal Adaptations’ framework for implementing nature-based solutions guides coastal...
Scope:
Global
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Endangered Landscapes Programme
Description: The Côa Valley of Northern Portugal is an important region for birds of prey and apex predators, but overhunting and persecution have diminished populations of these species, disrupted food chains and damaged local ecology. This project will create a crucial wildlife corridor in...
Scope:
Europe
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FutureEarth
Description: PECS aims to integrate research on the stewardship of social–ecological systems, the services they generate, and the relationships among natural capital, human wellbeing, livelihoods, inequality and poverty.
Scope:
Global
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Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
Description: Kuwait’s economic growth and shoreline development has resulted in a compromised marine ecosystem and the degradation of various marine species’ habitats. Marine ecosystem biodiversity has also been affected by the unregulated exploitation of the marine environment by the...
Scope:
Global
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Ecoagriculture Partners
Description: EcoAgriculture Partners is the leading non-profit champion of integrated landscape management, helping communities and organizations grow healthy and resilient places from the grassroots up.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Canadian Society of Landscape Architects
Description: Nature-based Solutions (NbS) provide society with powerful alternatives to challenges posed by climate change, biodiversity loss, food security and accessibility to clean water. Recognizing how fast environments are changing in today’s world, landscape architects often seek the...
Scope:
North America
Main entity:
Trinity College Dublin
Description: he Connecting Nature Enterprise Platform (CNEP) launched in 2020 as a response to research findings that identified thousands of Nature-Based Enterprises (NBEs) working for and with nature. These enterprises often operate in isolation with little recognition, networking or...
Scope:
Europe
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Trinity College Dublin
Description: Trinity College Dublin, with feedback from the front-runner cities of Genk, Glasgow and Poznan have adapted the well-known business model canvas tool (Osterwalder & Pigneur 2010) to better capture the wider value proposition of nature-based solutions.
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
Trinity College Dublin
Description: How Do You Finance Nature-Based Solutions?
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Trinity College Dublin
Description: To assist you in developing your NbS, Connecting Nature has produced a series of mini guidebooks. The overall Connecting Nature Framework Guidebook is a good starting point. There is also a guidebook for each element of the framework process describing the implementation steps...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Description: The paper contributes to the literature on urban forestry and urban sustainability by filling gaps in the knowledge on viable business, financing, and governance models for nature-based solutions. Through two case studies, we provide empirical illustrations for business models...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT)
Description: Co-production is a novel governance method for developing naturebased solutions where there are a lot of actors (individuals, groups or organisations) involved. Co-production is about collaboration, empowerment and producing shared results, such as policies and visions. This...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
City of Genk
Description: Coordinated by Trinity College Dublin, Connecting Nature is a consortium of 30 partners within 16 European countries, and hubs in Brazil, China, Korea & The Caucasus (Georgia and Armenia). We are co-working with local authorities, communities, industry partners, NGOs and...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
City of Glasgow
Description: Coordinated by Trinity College Dublin, Connecting Nature is a consortium of 30 partners within 16 European countries, and hubs in Brazil, China, Korea & The Caucasus (Georgia and Armenia). We are co-working with local authorities, communities, industry partners, NGOs and...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
University of East London
Description: The Nature-Based Solutions Initiating Scaling Guidebook by Stuart Connop & Paula Vandergert is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The Nature-Based Solutions Initiating Upscaling Guidebook is based on the City Retrospection,...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
Description: The Handbook aims to provide decision-makers with a comprehensive NbS impact assessment framework, and a robust set of indicators and methodologies to assess impacts of nature-based solutions across 12 societal challenge areas: Climate Resilience; Water Management; Natural and...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
CLEARING HOUSE
Description: We will analyse and compare the implementation of UFBS in selected Chinese and European cities and city regions in view of their impacts on urban ecosystems and societies, their cost effectiveness, and their replicability in distinct contents. The European case studies are...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management
Description: HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management intends to establish a series of natural capital funds, investing in a diverse range of activities that preserve, protect and enhance nature over the long-term, and address climate change.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Natural Capital Coalition
Description: The Natural Capital Protocol is a decision-making framework that enables organisations to identify, measure and value their direct and indirect impacts and dependencies on natural capital.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
World Business Council of Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Description: “Natural Climate Solutions” (NCS) help nature do what it’s been doing for millions of years: sequester and store carbon. New research shows that these solutions could deliver 37% of the emissions reductions needed to limit global warming to 2°C. However, despite their massive...
Scope:
Global
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World Business Council of Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Description: WBCSD provide key information on selected environmental issues central to WBCSD work.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Leuphana University Lüneburg
Description: We envision a fair world where the benefits generated within social-ecological systems are shared sustainably with other species, both within and across generations. Solutions to sustainability challenges are developed collaboratively across diverse scientific disciplines,...
Scope:
Global
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CONFEDERACION HIDROGRAFICA DEL DUERO
Description: NAIAD aims to operationalise the insurance value of ecosystems to reduce the human and economic cost of risks associated with water (floods and drought) by developing and testing - with key insurers and municipalities - the concepts, tools, applications and instruments (business...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
NAIAD; European Commission
Description: The NAIAD project focused on NbS that are used for water-related projects, especially related to disaster risk management (DRM) and/or climate adaptation.
This report highlights what has been done in the NAIAD project to address, innovate and learn to overcome challenges to the...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
Water Research Institute; National Research Council (IRSA-CNR)
Description: Highlights: Nature Based Solutions (NBSs) could provide a multiplicity of co-benefits. Stakeholders' engagement allows the identification of co-benefits and trade-offs. Causal Loop Diagrams (CLDs) and a Performance Matrix are used for NBSs co-design.Co-benefits assessment is...
Scope:
Global
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European Agroforestry Federation
Description: The European Agroforestry Federation (EURAF) aims at promoting the use of trees on farms as well as any kind of silvopastoralism throughout the different environmental regions of Europe. EURAF has more than 500 members from 20 different European countries.
Scope:
Europe
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Universidade de Aveiro
Description: In cities around the world, there is a general tendency to increase their size in the coming decades, which leads to an increase not only in population but also in the generation of urban environmental impacts, as well as the probability of becoming vulnerable areas due to the...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO)
Description: The Municipal Governance Guidelines aim to support cities in overcoming governance-related challenges in relation to the effective development of nature-based solutions (NbS).
Scope:
Europe
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University Of Stuttgart
Description: The UNaLab project has developed a first draft version of its Technical Handbook of Nature-based Solutions. The handbook provides accurate, detailed information on the full range of potentially applicable nature-based solutions (NbS) to support urban climate and water resilience...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Smart Prosperity Index
Description: The Greening Growth Partnership brings together a network of more than 50 Canadian and international scholars, and over 40 government, civil society, business and research institution partners. Funded through a 6-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)...
Scope:
North America
Main entity:
Regreen
Description: The project REGREEN is conducting an EU wide market research on nature-based solutions of those stakeholders who are implementing or promoting nature-based solutions.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
REGREEN
Description: The aim with this document is to share progression of task 8.1 Innovation and business incubation. Task 8.1, bullet 4 Network creation is about creating a network of stakeholders from academia and business. The network will be a forum for disseminating inspiration, knowledge and...
Scope:
Asia, Europe
Main entity:
OPERAs
Description: Nature-based solutions provide a way to ensure that current and future human demand for natural resources can be fulfilled also under changing climate. The OPERAs project offers a number of examples for tools and methods supporting the development and implementation of nature-...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
OPERAs
Description: Commitments to Natural Capital Accounting have been increasing in recent years – as reflected by recent international, European and national initiatives and legislation. The Strategic Plan for Biological Diversity 2011-2020 includes the commitment to integrate biodiversity into...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
Studiorum Università di Bologna
Description: The adoption of Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs) represents a novel means to mitigate natural hazards. In the framework of the OPERANDUM project, this study introduces a methodology to assess the efficiency of the NBSs and a series of Open-Air Laboratories (OALs) regarded as a...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Naturalea
Description: This article focuses on the knowledge about measuring the effectiveness of NbS and how the available evidence can be translated into management strategies and policy instruments.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
The Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance
Description: ORRAA brings together the insurance and finance sectors, governments, non-profits, and stakeholders from the Global South to pioneer finance and insurance products that incentivise investment into nature-based solutions, with a focus on protecting the regions and communities...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Dark Matter Labs
Description: We are a multidisciplinary design team working with partners, clients, and collaborators across the world to develop new working methods for system change.
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
Business for Nature
Description: This resource demonstrates the important role which biodiversity plays for businesses. It elaborates on how the business sector impacts wildlife and nature, and what companies are doing to help conserve and manage biodiversity.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD)
Description: This document elaborates on how and why the business community should engage in the Convention on Biological Diversity Post-2020 process.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Business for Nature
Description: Over 200 companies have worked with Business for Nature to develop five policy recommendations on nature. Coupled with continued business action, these policies once adopted have the potential to unleash new opportunities and encourage business to do more, which in turn leads to...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
The Business for Nature Coalition
Description: Business for Nature is a global coalition that brings together business and conservation organizations and forward-thinking companies. They want to demonstrate and amplify a credible business voice on nature calling for governments to adopt policies to reverse nature loss in...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: With the financial support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), ADAPT aims to increase ecosystem and community resilience to climate change and environmental degradation by applying Nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction. This regional...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
Stockholm Environment Institute
Description: This brief introduces a four-part series exploring nature-based solutions (NbS). Responding to identified gaps in existing knowledge about the social and economic sustainability aspects of NbS, the series seeks to explore their costs and benefits and how they can be developed...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
GrowGreen
Description: This document provides an overview of financing approaches that can be used to deliver green infrastructure (GI) or nature-based solutions (NbS) in urban areas, compiled through literature review. It is intended to provide a basis for more detailed analysis of instruments. It...
Scope:
Global