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Webinar 9: Nature-based solutions for water and resilience: an overview for cities and urban planners

 
Desription: Nature-based Solutions (NBS)

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Compendium for City Good Practice Series: How Paris Is Leveraging Nature For Climate Resilience

This report, as part of the Compendium for City Good Practice series, highlights Paris's innovative approach to climate resilience through the strategic integration of nature into urban

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Note on Nature Finance Tracking Methodology

International Development Association (IDA) participants requested that the World Bank develop a methodology to identify, monitor, and track nature-positive World Bank investme

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Banking on nature: What the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework means for responsible banks

As part of a series of publications to help financial institutions understand the relevance and implications of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), this b

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The Urban Nature Indexes

The IUCN Urban Alliance, a broad coalition of IUCN constituents concerned with the urban dimensions of nature conservation, has unveiled a new knowledge product for measuring t

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Stepping Up on Biodiversity: What the Kunming‑Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework means for responsible investors

In the face of unprecedented biodiversity loss, 196 countries adopted in December 2022 the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) providing a global framework to

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Summary - Towards an IUCN Nature-Positive Approach: a Working Paper

To deliver a nature-positive future the world needs to be able to measure progress towards global goals, but currently lacks the tools to do so.

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Valuing the Benefit of Nature-Based Solutions for Integrated Urban Flood Management in China (Available in English and Chinese)

Such solutions have the potential to integrate natural habitats, processes, and services as part of a coherent and holistic approach to water management, particularly in the ur

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Urban Green Infrastructure II: Implementing and Monitoring (Spanish)

This publication is part of a series of three papers exploring the different aspects of urban green infrastructure solutions.

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Urban Green Infrastructure I: Challenges, Opportunities and Good Practices (Spanish)

This publication is part of a series of three papers exploring the different aspects of urban green infrastructure solutions.

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Urban Nature and Biodiversity for Cities. Policy Brief

One important way for urban leaders to rise to today’s challenges is to bring biodiversity and nature into urban design through urban eco

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A Catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience

Cities worldwide are facing resilience challenges as climate risks interact with urbanization, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, poverty, and rising socioeconomic in

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Nature-Based Solutions: State of the Art in EU-Funded Projects

This document summarises outcomes from the Commission individual expert reports delivered through its ‘Valorisation of NBS Projects’ initiative.

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Green Infrastructure Design for Transport Projects: A Road Map to Protecting Asia's Wildlife Biodiversity

This report discusses the impacts of transport projects on wildlife and biodiversity in Asia, and how to address them by integrating road ecology principles and green infrastructure to balance co

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The Power of Dung: Lessons Learned from On-Farm Biodigester Programs in Africa

Over half the world’s population cooks primarily with wood, charcoal, coal, crop waste, or dung.

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Greening Africa's Cities : Enhancing the Relationship between Urbanization, Environmental Assets, and Ecosystem Services

Africa is urbanizing late but fast.

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