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GPSC Regional City Academy in Asia

The Regional City Academy convened Asian cities to exchange knowledge on resilience, nature‑based solutions, and sustainable planning.

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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) that strategically conserve or restore nature to support conventionally built infrastructure systems can produce more resilient

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Exploring nature-positive buildings

This report shows built environment sector stakeholders the first steps towards assessing the ‘whole-life nature impacts’ of buildings.

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

Explore Paris's innovative approach to climate resilience through the strategic integration of nature into urban environments.

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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

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Nature as Infrastructure

Nature as infrastructure has the potential to be a transformative concept for development. It goes beyond nature-based solutions or mitigating

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Financing Nature-Based Solutions for Adaptation at Scale: Learning from Specialised Investment Managers and Nature Funds

Scaling funding to effective nature-based solutions (NbS) for adaptation is key to tackle climate change and support sustainable development. NbS

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A Playbook for Nature-positive Infrastructure Development

Infrastructure is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss. For example, 95% of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is

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Unlocking Blue Carbon Development: Investment Readiness Framework for Governments

The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical framework to guide governments in catalyzing and scaling up public

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Nature-based Solutions to Build Climate Resilience in Informal Areas

This strategy paper draws from existing research and practical project experience applying nature-based solutions (NBS) for adaptation and building climate

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30x30 A Guide to Inclusive, Equitable and Effective Implementation of Target 3

This guide is about how to plan and implement the new global target for effectively and equitably conserving at least

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Nature-Based Solutions for Cities

We are living in the urban century, one where urbanization is driving multiple global environmental changes that in turn place

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Integrating Gender and Social Inclusion in Nature-Based Solutions: Guidance Note

Nature-based solutions (NBS) have gained traction in recent years because of their potential to promote sustainable development and reduce disaster

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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

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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

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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

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Best Practice in Delivering the 30x30 Target: Protected Areas and Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures

This report was first published before the final decision on the Global Biodiversity Framework was made at the CBD meeting

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State of Finance for Nature 2022

The State of Finance for Nature is a series that aims to quantify public and private finance flows to nature-based

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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

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Best Practices and Lessons Learned: Urban Orchards in a Natural Reserve

“Banco San Miguel y Bahía de Asunción” Ecological Reserve is the city’s largest green area. Spreading over 300 hectares, this

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