The UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and Munich Re Foundation, in collaboration with the UN Climate Change Secretariat are offering the Climate Academy Webinar Series: Nature-based Solutions and Urban Vulnerability. Here’s the description:
The academy will bring together more than 25 experts and emerging change makers from around the world to tackle information gaps around nature-based solutions and their application in urban areas to reduce vulnerability to climate change. In this context, a series of webinars will be conducted, which are open to the public.
The sessions will centre around the question: What do decision makers in policy and communities of practice need to know about nature-based solutions to effectively reduce urban vulnerabilities?
The programme will specifically focus on three complementary approaches to understand the relationship between nature-based solutions and urban vulnerabilities:
Enabler: Nature-based solutions as enablers of transformative and collaborative climate actions in cities (best practices, local knowledge, emphasis on Global South countries, (co-)benefits, transferability)
Application: Application of nature-based solutions in informal urban development contexts (measures, co-benefits, long-term sustainability in dynamically evolving settings)
Mainstreaming: Mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions into climate governance schemes and policies across scales and administrative boundaries (challenges, enabling conditions, actors, finance and design)
Events
Monday, 27 September 2021, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. CEST
Nature-based Solutions for urban areas – need, application and pathways
Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. CEST
Nature-based solutions as enabler – case studies
Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. CEST
The Enterprise Evolution, innovation and nature-based solutions
Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. CEST
Futurist thinking workshop
Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. CEST
Challenges and opportunities for applying nature-based solutions in the urban context
Thursday, 30 September 2021, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. CEST
Mainstreaming nature-based solutions – case studies
Thursday, 30 September 2021, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. CEST
Effective implementation of nature-based solutions in urban areas – case studies
Friday, 1 October 2021, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. CEST
Nature-based solutions: effective application, climate risk in urban areas and the way forward
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