Nature-based solutions resources

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Case Studies on Adaptation and Climate Resilience in Schools and Educational Settings

Educational institutions can play an instrumental role in local level climate adaptation and resilience building. They create spaces for peer learning, innovative ideas, community awareness, and implement practical solutions. Sharing knowledge, best practices and concrete experiences on how to

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TELEPÜLÉSI KLÍMAADAPTÁCIÓ: Adaptációs jó gyakorlatok

Az adatbázis célja a hazai önkormányzatok hatékony klímaadaptációjának elősegítése és a klímaváltozással szembeni sérülékenységük csökkentése hazai és nemzetközi jó gyakorlatok bemutatása által. A találatok célirányosan, a projekt, a technológia vagy a település megadásával szűrhetők.

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Nature-based Solutions in the Nordic Region

The NetworkNature Nordic hub is a gathering place for all those who work with nature-based solutions in the Nordic region. It is a platform where we exchange contacts and share the knowledge, we gain about implementing nature-based solutions in our part of the world. Also, we post Nordic cases on

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VÍZGAZDÁLKODÁS: Innovatív vízgazdálkodási megoldások gyűjteménye

Az Innovatív vízgazdálkodási megoldások gyűjteménye olyan fejlesztések, termékek, szolgáltatások adatait gyűjti össze, amelyek ökoszisztéma alapú segítséget nyújthatnak az éghajlatváltozás hatására megjelent térségi és települési vizekhez kapcsolódó problémák kezeléséhez és megoldásához. A

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Innovating with Nature: Nature-based solutions

This infographic shows how nature-based solutions can play an important role in solving several of the challenges that our society is living nowadays, such as: Climate change and energy, Unsustainable and unhealthy cities or degradation of ecosystems.

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Az esővízhasznosítás és szürkevíz újrahasznosítás lehetőségei a klímaváltozás hatásainak csökkentésében

A klímaváltozás okozta hidrogeológiai kockázatok miatt az európai városok egyre gyakrabban szembesülnek a kapcsolódó problémákkal, akár hirtelen áradások vagy éppen a vízhiány képében. A Körforgásos Városi Vízgazdálkodás projekt (CWC) célja hogy segítse a városokat az elavult városi infrastruktúra

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Rainwater harvesting & greywater recycling against climate change

Climate change induced hydrological risks are making European cities increasingly vulnerable against urban floods and at the same time make the water scarcity problem worse. Coupled with growing drinking water consumption and consequently rising amounts of wastewater to be treated, this threatens

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Greenopolis - a learning platform about nature-based solutions

Greenopolis is an educational platform about nature-based solutions. The material contains activities and exercises that bring school children (age 8-12 yrs) outside into the (urban)nature to learn through reflexions, creativity, experiments, observations, and by being bodily present in nature

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URBAN GreenUP Barriers and Boundaries Identification

This deliverable investigates the experiences and approaches of the URBAN GreenUP cities with the identification of the barriers and boundaries in terms of implementation of Nature-Based Solutions. It provides detailed descriptions of potential barriers and boundaries under the following

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URBAN GreenUP Climate Change Challenge Catalogue

This report provides a useful tool for the standardisation of a method to identify and evaluate cities in respect of several societal city challenges. Such a tool will allow practitioners to be able to examine these challenges in a simple way with accurate information about how these challenges

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URBAN GreenUP Nature-based solution catalogue

The target of this document is the definition of a catalogue of Nature Base Solutions (NbS) that includes all the possible characteristics (technical, economic, environmental, and social) of each one of them. In order to be able to select the best options to introduce them in the development of

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URBAN GreenUP Nature-based solution selection tool

This tool is a decision support tool – it’s designed to give suggestions that may help you choose the right Nature-based solution (NbS) for you, based on both your city’s capabilities, and the outcomes you’d like to achieve. It can also be helpful in figuring out how to build your capacity to

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URBAN GreenUP good practice kit

This kit will help you in using Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) to make your city more liveable and resilient to climate change. It offers a set of best practices and recommendations that cover all the stages of NbS implementation: how to select the right NbS, how to set one up, and how to monitor it

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The Urban Butterfly Effect

"The Urban Butterfly Effect” a policy brief with recommendations for national governments to accelerate urban efforts to help them achieve the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) 2030 Action Targets. This policy brief is a response to the call from the Plan of Action on Subnational Governments

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European Academies Science Advisory Council - Regenerative agriculture in Europe

This report takes as a first point of departure the goals and commitments made in the recent European Commission’s Green Deal, and specifically the Biodiversity and Farm to Fork Strategies, for dealing with both climate change and biodiversity loss while at the same time securing production of an

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UNCCD Urban-rural linkages and ecosystem restoration

This working paper from the UN proposes an urban-rural linkage perspective in relation to land and ecosystem restoration at a time of heightened urgency on multiple fronts at local, national and international levels. The combined impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss land degradation, and

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REGREEN podcast

The REGREEN podcast explores the concept of nature-based solutions, and how these solutions can help accelerate the transition towards equitable, green, and healthy cities in Europe and in China. Why is it important to rethink urban development, and how far are we in the research, development,

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Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Risk Management

The Infrastructure Preparation and Innovation Facility (IPIF), in collaboration with the transaction technical assistance for preparing the Integrated Flood Risk Management Sector Project, is helping the Government of the Philippines prepare flood risk management (FRM) projects in six river basins

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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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Restoring nature can remove huge amounts of EU emissions

Restoring degraded terrestrial habitats across the EU could take up to 300 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent out of the atmosphere each year – as much as the combined annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, new research reveals. The findings show the huge

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