About
Mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions is working to deliver greater value for society, economy, and the environment by enabling implementation of nature-based solutions at scale.
Our programme mission
- Provide leadership and bring together 23 multi-sectoral partners, whose expertise is critical to achieving our vision.
- Use data and evidence to underpin all our activities.
- Identify and overcome the barriers to nature-based solutions.
- Test regulatory, policy, financial and technical enablers of nature-based solutions using real world examples.
- Promote the wider benefits that nature-based solutions can provide while they solve our societal problems of too much, too little and too dirty water.
Programme of work
Bring together experts to interrogate evidence and identify the barriers and enablers to delivering nature-based solutions.
Convene and take senior decision makers on our journey, to guide and challenge the programme and ultimately embed outcomes to mainstream nature-based solutions.
Collaborate within workstreams to create enablers to overcome barriers.
Integrate findings from the workstreams into a consolidated plan for action.
Test action plan through real life regional case studies to validate and refine initial findings.
Cross-sectoral engagement and dissemination of knowledge, findings and expertise throughout the programme duration.
How we'll achieve this
Strategic steer, collaboration and aligned planning and value including a Common Value Framework for NbS.
Working with regulators and policymakers including influencing industry reviews and developing regulatory incentives.
Aligned investment and delivery at scale in NbS including developing an investible pipeline of projects and unlocking institutional finance.
Standardisation of NbS including taxonomy, risk sharing framework and monitoring and evaluation.
Consolidate and provide evidence-based findings and recommendations to all key stakeholders including policy makers and advocacy organisations.
Programme workstreams
1) Common Value Framework
Capturing and valuing the benefits of NbS in a robust, consistent and comparable way.
2) Collaboration
Enabling effective collaboration and engagement to ensure the programme can facilitate the mainstreaming of NbS.
3) Policy & Regulation
Increasing regulatory confidence in nature-based solutions and recommending regulatory changes.
4) Funding & Finance
Identifying solutions for aligning NbS with mainstream finance.
5) Standardisation
Creating standardised approaches to the planning and management of NbS projects that will facilitate collaboration and reduce project transaction costs.
Programme outputs & outcomesÂ
Outputs
- Cross-sectoral engagement and dissemination of benefits, knowledge, findings and expertise
- Consolidated tools and processes. Which support integration of planning, governance and collaboration between sectors
- Investible pipeline of financially viable NBS projects at scale which is attractive to stakeholders and investors, bringing multiple/blended investment
- Tried and tested Common Value Framework that acts as a common way to fairly assess the value of nature-based solutions and enable ‘added value’ decision making
- Consolidated evidence-based findings and recommendations disseminated to all key stakeholders including policy makers
Outcomes
- Increased sector-wide and cross-sectoral collaboration in support of NbS
- Cultural shift in support of NbS
- Greater long-term financial flows from a wider range of sources to fund NbS projects
- Tools and processes adopted which support greater uptake of NbS
- Increased confidence and expertise in the planning, implementation, maintenance, monitoring and valuation of NbS
- Regulatory changes which drive greater uptake of NbS
Why Nature-based Solutions (NbS)?
“Nature-based solutions are actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural and modified ecosystems that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously benefiting people and nature.” Source: IUCN
Learn more about how NbS can help resolve multiple pressures whilst delivering social and environmental benefits.
