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Green Roofs: An Assesment of ecological benefits in the Paris Region

The Paris Region Institute and its biodiversity department ARB (Regional Biodiversity Agency) carried out a three-year study on 36 green roofs. The study, called Grooves (for Green ROOfs Verified Ecosystem Services), ran from 2017 to 2019. The roofs concerned had varied typologies (extensive, semi-

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DELIVERABLE 4.2b REPORT ON ASSESSMENT OF NBS PROCESSES, TRIPARTITE PROTOCOL AND OUTCOMES FROM LIFE LABS (LEARNING CYCLE 3)

This report is the third report of three, analyzing how NbS are implemented and assessed through indicators in a variety of European and Latin American Cities, which are partners in the CONEXUS project. Analysis was done based on the results of learning cycle 3 but also reflecting of the overall

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Connecting Nature Enterprise Platform

The Connecting Nature Enterprise Platform (CNEP) was launched in October 2020 as a direct response to addressing a significant bottleneck where cities and developers seeking to implement NbS voiced their difficulty in finding and sourcing skilled suppliers of NbS. Developed as a marketplace to

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Addressing Climate Change in Cities – Policy Instruments to Promote Urban Nature-based Solutions

This guidance document responds to exisiting gaps and highlights a range of policy and supporting instruments relevant for NbS design, implementation and maintenance. Policy instruments include regulations, strategies, programmes, action plans and financial incentives. The guidance aims to support

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Tree restoration potential in the European Union

Inspired by the report and the European Union’s new Green Deal, the European Commission Directorate General for Environment (DG ENV) requested the FAO Climate and Biodiversity Department to prepare a detailed report for the potential of land restoration in the European Union. The expected outputs

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Conexus Life-Lab factsheet series- Valdocco Vivibile: a livable district

The Torino Urban Lab coordinates the Valdocco Vivibile pilot in collaboration with the City of Torino to promote the development of climate-resilient neighborhoods through small-scale and diffused green infrastructure solutions. The pilot has three main pillars: high replicability; multifunctional

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NetworkNature Knowledge Brief 2: Ensuring the quality of nature-based solutions - perspectives of key stakeholder groups

This Knowledge Brief produced by NetworkNature aims to explore and analyse different perspectives and perceptions of high-quality nature-based solutions (NbS). The brief provides an overview from key stakeholder groups and draws recommendations for practitioners and policy-makers on how to ensure

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Urban GreenUp info-pack: New strategy for Renaturing Cities through Nature Based Solutions

This guide presents an integrated methodology for the development of Renaturing Urban Plans (RUP). The goal is to help cities worldwide to increase environmental sustainability and to address climate, social and economic challenges via the local implementation of Nature-based solutions (NBSs).

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NetworkNature Annual Event 2021 - Presentations & Recordings

NetworkNature held its first Annual Event on 21st October 2021, on achieving the EU Green Deal through Nature-based Solutions. The Event was organised by IUCN in cooperation with the NetworkNature's partners. Find the presentations from the opening and the closing plenary sessions and the

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GrowGreen NbS Co-design Guide

The “GrowGreen NbS co-design Guide”, made by Bipolaire, could be materialised as a tool that guides the NbS co-design process through questions. It is structured similarly as the GCF (Green Cities Framework), based on three main pillars: Planning, Mobilising, and Evaluating. Municipalities that

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Go Green

Guidelines for implementing multifunctional green infrastructure in urban contexts, including tools and good practice examples.

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Adaptation of trees and forests to climate change: the importance of genetic variability

The policy brief “Adaptation of trees and forests to climate change: the importance of genetic variability” is derived from the BiodivERsA-funded LinkTree project, which examined the genetic variation within forest tree populations in five European countries, and assessed how this variability and

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Integration of NBS in local governance contexts and urbanisation trajectories in CONEXUS EU and CELAC cities. Evidence from Barcelona, Buenos, Aires, Bogotá, Lisbon, Santiago, São Paulo and Turin

The present report analyses the current state of integration in Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) governance and planning processes within and across scales and dimensions of all CONEXUS cities: Barcelona, Buenos, Aires, Bogotá, Lisbon, Santiago, São Paulo, and Turin. Different levels of cooperation

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Developing a Novel Martelloscope for Assessing Biodiversity and Growing Stock Volume with the aid of a Digital Twin.

Monitoring and quantifying biodiversity variation through silvicultural choices made with the marteloscope adds significant value to sustainable forest management, enhancing ecosystem services and production aspects.

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Nature-Based Enterprises Guidebook

Nature-based enterprises can help to support cities, private sector, and third-sector organisations in the planning, delivery, and management or stewardship of nature-based solutions in urban, peri-urban, and rural contexts. This Guidebook explains what nature-based enterprises are, how to find

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GoGreenRoutes City Factsheets Deliverable 8.3 Work Package 8

This report was developed as a part of the research project “GO GREEN: Resilient Optimal Natural, Technological and Environmental Solutions (GoGreenRoutes)”, funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme. Publication Date: 31 Aug 2022 Author(s): Prof. Mark Nieuwenhuijsen (

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The BioClim project: Climate change adaptation strategy for the natural environment and bioeconomy in Estonia

BioClim, carried out between January and August 2015, was a project concentrating on mapping the current situation, analysing the climate change impacts and possible adaptation measures for the natural environment and bioeconomy in Estonia.

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Stakeholder Engagement Guide - Nature Based Solutions in Cities

What is this guide? Guidance and a set of tools to establish a strong and consistent foundation for outreach and engagement when undertaking City projects in Nature Based Solutions, Regeneration, Housing etc. Who is it for? Any City Official carrying out a natural or built environment project that

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Figure 1. Presentation of the different modules of Vigil’encre designed to meet the tool's three functions (inform, identify, declare). ©INRAE
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Marteloscope

A practical tool for training in silvicultural management of chestnut, oak and beech stands located in Corrèze

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ALARM - Assessing large scale risks for biodiversity with tested methods

Based on a better understanding of terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem functioning ALARM will develop and test methods and protocols for the assessment of large-scale environmental risks in order to minimise negative direct and indirect human impacts.

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