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New study: With city-level projects, co-creation of nature-based solutions becomes more widespread and institutionalized in Europe

News

16 February 2021

News originally published on the CLEVER Cities website . Republished with permission from CLEVER Cities.

A new open access publication by CLEVER Cities partner Politecnico di Milano analyses the project’s 2,5 years of experience with citizen engagement methodologies to implement urban-...

Wuhan Sponge City Programme: achieving harmony among people, water and city

News

28 January 2021

News originally published on the GrowGreen website . Republished with permission from GrowGreen.

Download the summary and the full report produced by IUCN for GrowGreen on the Chinese Sponge Cities Programme.

Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province , is well-known as the “...

Nature-based solutions for biodiversity - what we need to know

Opinion

15 December 2020

Nature-based solutions are creating quite a buzz as the world takes on biodiversity loss. But NbS alone are no panacea. Here are a few things we need to take on board.

Biodiversity is at the top of the political agenda - and not only in Europe. While there is good news in the recent release of...

The European Green Deal & Nature-based Solutions

News

14 December 2020

December 2020 saw a hallmark event hosted by German EU Presidency in collaboration with UNEP and IUCN on the integration of nature-based solutions into the European Green Deal . High-level speakers from governments, international organisations, civil society and the finance sector came together...

Espai Verd Benicalap opens with 15 plots of urban vegetable gardens

News

24 November 2020

News originally published on the GrowGreen website . Republished with permission from GrowGreen.

The new Espai Verd Benicalap (Green Space Benicalap), located in the Benicalap neighborhood in València, has been inaugurated with an open day for citizens. This project is one of the...

Key Features of Manchester’s West Gorton Community Park

News

22 October 2020

News originally published on the GrowGreen website . Republished with permission from GrowGreen.

The new West Gorton Community Park in Manchester, UK, is designed as a park that drinks water, aiming to reduce flood risk and providing a multitude of benefits for local residents.

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IPBES: Nature’s Dangerous Decline Unprecedented - Species Extinction Rates Accelerating

8 May 2019

The press release originally appeared on IPBES .

Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history — and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely, warns a landmark new report from the Intergovernmental...

Finance for the Future Awards

2 May 2019

The Finance for the Future Awards recognise finance functions driving sustainable economies. The Awards are looking for examples of good practice that could be transformational in building a sustainable organisation.

The awards are free to enter and open to all individuals and...

Engaging with the Nature-Based Solutions coalition for the Climate Action Summit

2 May 2019

The press release originally appeared on UN Environment .

A Summit about action and opportunity

The UN Climate Action Summit, being convened by UN Secretary-General on 23 September 2019 provides an opportunity for redefining people’s relationship with nature. ‘Nature-Based...

Approaches to financing nature-based solutions in cities

17 April 2019

This is a guest article from Laura Baroni , on behalf of the GrowGreen project.

In the framework of the Horizon 2020 project GrowGreen Trinomics and IUCN have developed an overview of financing approaches that can be used to deliver nature-based solutions (NbS) in...