Nature based solutions

Nature-based solutions become more and more important to achieve the global goals (SDGs) within the planetary boundaries. The ambition of this CoP is to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals and building landscape resilience including resilience to floods and droughts. 

The CoP will work to better understand how to mainstream Nature based Solutions (NbS);

This includes how to enable them through better:

1)  Organisation that fits NbS (cross-sectoral mandates)

2) Get them acknowledged as a measure to reduce risks and include them in risk assessments and risk strategies.

3) Finance mechanisms (budget sharing etc). 

4) What policies and regulations are needed (eg linking risk and nature). 

5) How integrate NbS in ongoing implementation (changing work processes etc).

Many actors are active in this field of work, and there is a diversity of toolboxes, networks and projects. For example:

• A catalogue of nature based solutions for urban resilience, World Bank
• NBS Contributions platform, UNEP Listing many different initiatives on NBS from around the world, from various organisations
• IUCN Global standard for NbS
• Geneva Environment Network
• The GREEN SURGE Handbook Green Infrastructure and Urban Biodiversity for Sustainable Urban Development and the Green Economy
• OPPLA - Network OPen PLAtform for Nature-Based Solutions
• Think Nature  Multi-stakeholder dialogue platform and think-tank
• Eklipse  European Knowledge and Learning Mechanism to Improve the Policy-Science-Society Interface on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
• OPERAs Operational Potential of Ecosystem Research Applications
• The Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Manifesto
• The Nature-based Solutions initiative at University of Oxford
• NATURVATION An EC funded project on NbS in cities 2017-2021
• BiodiverCities by 2030: Transforming cities’ relationship with nature World Economic Forum
• Green Roads for Water Learning Alliance 
• Nature based Infrastructure, Global Resource Center - IISD

Publications on principles, barriers etc.

• Core principles for successfully implementing and upscaling Nature-based Solutions by Cohen-Shacham, E. et al. 2019
• Green infrastructure acts to cool the urban environment through shade provision and evapotranspiration. Wong et al 2021
• 5 lessons learned from blue-green infrastructure delivery | Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)