This Factsheet highlights some of the mian highlights from the Cities and Biodiversity Outlook - the first scientific assessment of how global urbanization trends affect biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics. It explains how biodiversity and ecosystem services can be managed and restored in innovative ways to reduce the vulnerability of cities to climate change and other disturbances. It also provides decision-makers, urban planners and experts with practical guidelines, highlighting the complementary roles of authorities on national, sub-national and local levels in preserving biodiversity in cities as well as in distant places.