Nature-based solutions resources
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We Value Nature Digital Media Library
Curated multimedia content showing the business case for a natural capital approach. Most content is under open licences and you are encouraged to download, remix and share your creations.
- Policy Brief
Opinion Fact sheet: Bio-diverse cities and regions beyond 2020 at the UN CBD COP 15 and in the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
The political objective of this own-initiative opinion is to adopt the official position of the CoR to disseminate in the ongoing preparatory meetings and events towards the 15th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UN CBD COP 15) and consequently to
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NetworkNature EU Green Week Event 2021 Presentations & Recording
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as part of the Network Nature H2020 project, hosted a virtual European Green Week partner event on May 31st 2021, titled “Joining forces for health and nature recovery”. Find the session’s presentations from Celine Charveriat and Matthias
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- Guidance
Nature4Cities - NbS Dynamic Assessment Methodology Support Document
The evaluation of the environmental benefits of NbS is one of the key solutions paving the way for resilient cities, and to strengthen urban planning strategies. A strong need of new governance, business, financing models and economic impact assessment tools for sustainable cities with NbS (urban
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- Guidance
- Software
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Nature4Cities platform
The main objective of Nature4Cities project is to increase the awareness about the Nature Based Solution (NbS) and to promote new collaborative models for NbS uptake. Following this purpose, the Nature4Cities (N4C) Platform has been developed including a set of tools with the aim of spread
- Software
Nature4Cities - NoiseModelling
Among the tools developed in the scope of Nature4Cities, one is dedicated to the assessment of noise. NoiseModelling is a free and open-source tool designed to produce environmental noise maps on very large urban areas. Urban planners can use NoiseModelling in order to carry out impact studies
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Nature4Cities - Diagnostic of your city's trends with Colouree and/or Greencity
Do you work for a council, as policy-maker or in urban or green spaces planning? Colouree and Greencity will help you set up an exhaustive and ongoing monitoring system to (i) identify the best place for your NbS projects, (ii) support data-driven and collective decision-making and (iii) monitor
- Software
Nature4cities - Participation tool CitizenSay
Involve citizens in your project with our NbS projects participation tool CitizenSay. Are you a policy maker and want to engage and involve multiple stakeholders in your NbS project? Or are you a citizen or a specialist and you want to contribute to developing projects adapted to your needs and
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Nature4Cities - Implementation model pre-selection tool to find the most suitable business, governance and financing model
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 recommendations and
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Nature4Cities - Social acceptance method
The Nature4Cities social acceptance method is an NbS implementation support tool. This methodological tool aims to study social acceptance (socio-political, community and market acceptance) and barriers (social, economic and cultural) as key factors for the implementation of NbS projects. It is
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- Guidance
Nature4Cities - Step-by-step guide
The Step-by-Step Guide helps with the planning and preparation for NbS, to manage the complexities involved, to coordinate the work with multiple actors (experts, researchers, stakeholders and citizens) and to reflect on and monitor the whole process. The steps help create a framework for
- Software
Nature4Cities - Assessment tools for NbS projects
To minimise the difficulties often,met by municipalities when choosing indicators, support can come from the development of new tools linked to NbS. For example, Nature4Cities aims to provide access to a simplified online urban NbS assessment tool, where it is possible to create and assess urban
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- Guidance
- Product
Nature4Cities - Diagnostic of your assessment needs
Find the best methods and tools to evaluate and solve your city’s urban challenges with our assessment needs auto-diagnosis. Do you work for a council, as policy-maker or in planning or green spaces, and you’d like to know what methods and tools you could use to solve your urban challenges? Our
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- Guidance
- Software
Nature4Cities - Geocluster4NBS
Discover inspiring projects and choose your NbS with the Nature4Cities project observatory and pre-selection tool Are you a policy-maker, or work as an engineer, and would like to obtain an overview of the potential of NbS for a more sustainable and liveable city? With Nature4Cities
- Event
Nature-based Solutions and Ecosystems Restoration | Geneva Nature-based Solutions Dialogues | World Environment Day & UN Decade on Restoration
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration will be launched on World Environment Day, held on 5 June 2021 under the theme of “Ecosystem Restoration”. On this occasion, actors in Geneva and beyond can amplify the call for the protection and revival of ecosystems all around the world. This session will
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Biodiversity, natural capital and the economy
Nature underpins all economic activities and human well-being. It is the world’s most important asset. Yet humanity is destroying biodiversity at an unprecedented rate, posing significant but often overlooked risks to the economy, the financial sector and the well-being of current and future
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Podcast - Green Spaces - Just one Thing with Michael Mosley
Michael explores the science behind the soothing power of nature, revealing how nature not only makes us feel good in the moment, but how it also has a more lasting effect on our stress levels and our mental health. Michael speaks to Professor Ming Kuo at the University of Illinois in Chicago, who
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Geneva Nature-Based Solutions Dialogues
The Geneva Nature-Based Solutions dialogues aim to facilitate further engagement and discussion among the stakeholders in International Geneva and beyond, in the lead-up to a critical year for nature and society. This Nature-Based Solutions journey will bring together multiple actors from the
- Guidance
The Resilience Blog
The Resilience Blog is published by the European Forest Institute's Resilience Research Program, which focuses on forest-related risks such as climate change and the role of forests and trees in urban areas. They post both in English and German to address local and international readers.
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Saving biodiversity: why our mental and physical health depends on it
During the COVID-19 lockdowns, more of us are noticing the variety of animals, trees, and flowers in our back gardens or local park - and how being in contact with nature can influence our happiness. This variety of life is known as biodiversity and it’s essential for our health and wellbeing. We
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