Nature-based solutions resources
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Biodiversity an Blue Green Infrastructure for Health; key takeaways from BEGIN city-2-city learning programme
A report containing key takeaways on using blue and green infrastructure to bolster health, from the city-to-city learning programme conducted under the EU Interreg funded BEGIN programme in 2021.
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Taking Action for Urban Nature - Effective Governance Solutions
The research presented suggests that different opportunities should be explored to connect top-down policies that promote nature-based solutions for biodiversity, climate and environmental goals and bottom-up initiatives that stress their value in providing green space, well-being and economic
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Natural Climate Solutions World Atlas
Meet the new and improved NCS World Atlas! This online tool developed by Nature4Climate with support from The Nature Conservancy demonstrates opportunities for countries around the world to view how natural climate solutions (NCS) alongside emission reduction strategies, can help them reduce their
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Strengthening the foundational elements of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
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 seeks to support Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) who wish to strengthen the chapters
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The economic case for nature
The Economic Case for Nature is part of a series of papers by the World Bank that lays out the economic rationale for investing in nature and recognizes how economies rely on nature for services that are largely underpriced. This report presents a first-of-its-kind integrated ecosystem-economy
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Natural Capital & Biodiversity Briefing
As the ongoing climate emergency and unbridled human activity continues to have a direct, catastrophic impact on biodiversity, the destruction of habitat and environmental degradation are creating the perfect conditions for diseases like COVID-19 to emerge, and in turn, accelerated, irreversible
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GrowGreen report: Engaging citizens in nature-based solutions
The IUCN European Regional Office with contributions from the GrowGreen partners: Manchester, Wroclaw, Valencia, and Paisaje Transversal has developed the ‘GrowGreen report: Engaging citizens in nature-based solutions’. This report compiles the lessons learnt from the GrowGreen project as well as
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GrowGreen Factsheet - Nature Based Solutions Financing Assessment
The GrowGreen Factsheet proposes a series of steps to effectively plan the financing of NbS Strategies in cities. The process starts by clearly identifying the scale of costs associated with the different aspects of a city’s NbS strategy, followed by an assessment of any avoided costs resulting
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NbS Learning Scenarios
Better awareness of the opportunities, benefits and limitations of nature-based solutions has been identified by citizens and experts as one of the main factors that could facilitate the transition to more sustainable cities and territories. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) use nature and ecosystems to
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Investing in nature for development: do nature-based interventions deliver local development outcomes?
Does investing in nature actually deliver development at the local level? This IEED report provides insights into the types of direct, site-based interventions that can help or hinder the achievement of development outcomes for local people and, ultimately, the delivery of the post-2020 Global
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COVID-19 and its impact on public life and use of public space
This episode discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the behavior of people in public spaces in Dortmund (Germany), San Francisco (USA) and Isfahan (Iran). Guests: Teresa Sprague and Ghazal Farjami, and Mais Jafari explain how people in these societies perceive and react to social distancing, mask
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Green Cities and Contemporary Climate Planning: Politics and Practices
Green cities and green infrastructure have become common planning practices. But why is nature good and how does green matter? Do all people have equal access to nature, or are some left out of contemporary climate planning? Furthermore, what impact will COVID 19 and climate crisis have on future
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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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Infographic: Horizon2020 Nature-based Solutions Projects
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are inspired and supported by nature, they are cost-effective, simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits and help build resilience; such solutions bring more, and more diverse, nature and natural features and processes into cities, landscapes
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The 4 Returns Framework for Landscape Restoration
This publication is the result of a close collaboration between Commonland, the Landscape Finance Lab and Wetlands International, with support from the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management. The 4 Returns Framework for landscape restoration is a practical tested system-change framework used by
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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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Building on nature: Area-based conservation as a key tool for delivering the SDGs
The guidance has been developed in a global partnership by IEEP, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), UN Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and global leading conservation organisations the Nature Conservancy (TNC), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and WWF. It
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Vivid Economics' Report "Fund Nature, Fund the Future: EU Recovery Plans miss the triple win opportunity to for nature, climate and the economy"
The report provides quantitative analysis of ten EU National Resilience and Recovery Plans (NRRPs) and finds that they miss a major opportunity to invest in a nature-positive recovery. The NRRPs aim to mitigate the economic and social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and build a more sustainable and
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State Of Finance For Nature: Tripling investments in nature-based solutions by 2030
UNEP, WEF, ELD and Vivid Economics published the report “State Of Finance For Nature: Tripling investments in nature-based solutions by 2030”, presenting the results of a global analysis which tracks investment flows into nature-based solutions and identifies future investments needed to meet the
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Human-Nature Interactions: Perspectives on Conceptual and Methodological Issues
Urban agglomerations expose citizens to ever-increasing risks from heat, air pollution, noise stress, and reduced nature connectedness. Concurrently, accumulating evidence suggests various health benefits by exposure to urban natural spaces. Existing research suggests an array of benefits of
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