Nature-based solutions resources
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REGREEN Factsheets
These factsheets showcase inspiring examples of NbS from cities around Europe to serve as a reference on NbS planning and implementation across REGREEN’s activities. The factsheets aimed to emphasise good practices, barriers and lessons learned. They cover the following topics: Biodiversity;
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Achieving Impact: How to Realise the Potential of Urban Nature-Based Solutions
The importance of urban green areas as a refuge to city dwellers and as a foundation for ‘recovering better’ has gained significant attention in light of COVID-19 and global lockdowns. The pandemic, while causing immense social and economic damages, also provides an opportunity to rethink urban
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The Multiple Values of Urban Nature: Evidence from 1,000 European Nature-Based Solutions
Urban nature-based solutions can be designed to deliver diverse social, cultural, environmental and economic benefits in parallel. This instills them with the potential to contribute to multiple policy goals simultaneously. Making optimal use of such solutions requires an understanding of the
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Nature-Based Solutions in European and National Policy Frameworks
A growing recognition of the value of ecosystem services and the wider socio-economic and socio-cultural benefits provided by natural systems has spurred a shift in urban policy and planning discourse, aiming to integrate these considerations into decision-making processes. This review finds
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Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions: Social Inclusion
Greater understanding of social inclusion is vital to decision making about mainstreaming nature-based solutions. Social inclusion in this context means understanding how vulnerable, marginalised and under-represented voices are included (rather than excluded) in processes and practices to
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Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions: Sustainable Development Goals
This report argues that nature-based solutions can contribute to achieving the SDGs because they often address public interest objectives and sustainability dimensions at the same time. This makes nature-based solutions effective instruments for addressing sustainability-related challenges in an
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Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions: Economic Regeneration
This report specifically addresses the mainstreaming of urban nature-based solutions for economic regeneration. We understand economic regeneration to be about the improvement and reinvigoration of urban areas. Nature-based solutions have the potential to encourage economic regeneration through
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Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions: Climate Change
Nature-based solutions are increasingly integrated in urban development practices. They can help to effectively address the climate crisis. These natural climate solutions in cities can both reduce the impacts of climate change (adaptation) and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation).
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Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions: Biodiversity
Nature-based solutions contribute to responding to biodiversity challenges through conserving nature, restoring nature, and mobilising people’s ability to thrive with nature. In the meantime, urban policies and strategies that aim to address biodiversity loss also hold great potential to drive the
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Pathways for Systemic Integration of Nature-Based Solutions
In this report, using the examples of climate change and biodiversity, we examine how stepping stones can be aligned to generate promising pathways for mainstreaming nature-based solutions that can contribute to diverse sustainability agendas in cities.
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Greening European Cities: Accelerating the Uptake of Urban Nature-Based Solutions
In this report, we provide a comparative analysis across the diverse national contexts in the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK, Spain, Germany, Hungary and the EU as to how factors from across the regulatory, financial and urban development domains shape the uptake of urban nature-based solutions.
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City for Biodiversity: The Roles of Nature-Based Solutions in European Cities
Local and subnational governments are increasingly being recognised for their critical roles in the implementation of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. To develop an understanding of how cities are (and can be) working with nature for protecting and reinforcing biodiversity, the
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International Comparison of Nature-Based Solutions
This report explores the dynamics and politics of urban nature-based solutions innovations by comparing governance arrangements, public participation, financing mechanisms, innovation patterns and social impacts associated with the emergence and deployment of 54 nature-based solutions interventions
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Taking Action for Urban Nature - Innovation Pathways Directory
What are the enabling conditions and driving forces for nature-based solutions in the context of urban sustainability transitions? And how do innovation pathways play a role for nature-based solutions? Innovation pathways are a journey: from the initial idea and its demonstration, to its broader
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Taking Action for Urban Nature - Business Model Catalogue for Urban NbS
The Business Models Catalogue for urban nature-based solutions presents eight different business models for urban nature-based solutions. These were identified based on 54 in-depth case studies of urban nature-based solutions, both in- and outside of Europe. These models explain which values
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Taking Action for Urban Nature - Citizen Engagement Handbook
Diverse values, interests, and needs are associated with nature-based solutions. It is therefore important that they are taken into account in decision-making. As engaging communities contribute to realising all the sustainability benefits of nature-based solutions the "Citizen Engagement
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Edinburg Process
Report on the Edinburg Process for Subnational and Local Governments on the Development of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
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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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How much do you know about the current state of European forests?
Does a larger forest area mean absolute good news? How can we adapt forests to climate change? What is the role of forests as carbon sinks? What is the relationship between biodiversity and sustainable forest management? Irene Baños Ruiz, a Deutsche Welle (DW) freelance environmental journalist,
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A buyer’s guide to soil carbon offsets
Voluntary carbon markets are ramping up efforts to credit soil carbon removal, with federal lawmakers and state regulators eager to follow suit. Most of the enthusiasm centers on agricultural practices like reducing tillage intensity, planting cover crops, and improving grazing management. These
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