FUTURE BRIEF: The solution is in nature

Description

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) work with nature to benefit both natural ecosystems and the people that depend on them. By putting nature at the centre, NbS address a range of societal challenges: protecting, sustainably managing or restoring natural or modified ecosystems and supporting their health, function and biodiversity.

The research collated in this brief confirms that NbS deliver simultaneously multiple benefits and shows the wide-ranging beneficial impacts of scaling up their implementation across Europe.

The brief provides examples of Nature-based Solutions in practice (chapter 3), assesses how to evaluate NbS (chapter 4), analyses social and economic opportunities through implementing NbS (chapter 5), as well as mechanisms of financing NbS (chapter 6).

NbS can be applied to a range of environmental and societal challenges with multiple benefits, and co-benefits. Climate related challenges and health related challenges are specifically discussed at section 4.5.

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