Nature Based Solutions for Atlantic Regional Climate Resilience (NBRACER)

The NBRACER project responds to the escalating impacts of climate change by adopting a systemic approach to increase climate resilience in European regions. Acknowledging ongoing natural capital degradation and the need for a comprehensive strategy, NBRACER works across sectors and disciplines, involving local communities in experimentation. The project aims to accelerate the transformation towards climate-resilient regions that are safe, green, clean, healthy, and just. It employs a smart packaging of nature-based solutions (NBS) rooted in biogeographic landscapes and a transformative action approach to mobilize and enable regions and communities. Focusing on the European Atlantic biogeographical area, NBRACER collaborates with regions to vision and co-design sustainable NBS, upscale them into coherent regional packages, and integrate local solutions into adaptation pathways. The project emphasizes community support, employing innovative technical and adaptation transformation support packages, quantitative mapping methods, capacity building, and networking for scaling out and building connections. It works with pilot NBS projects in the following local and regional authorities: Cantabria, Cavado, Porto Municipalities, Nouvelle Aquitaine, Central Denmark, East Flanders, West Flanders, Province of Fryslan. Led by Deltares, the consortium brings together expertise in climate adaptation science, practitioners, ecosystem engineers, transformative adaptation innovators, finance, and capacity building experts to address the complex challenges of climate resilience.