Nature-based Solutions (NbS) became an internationally recognised term at the 5th UN Environment Assembly in 2022, to describe interventions that can harness the power of the natural world to help address the climate and nature crises, whilst delivering local benefits for biodiversity and people. The 2021 BES NbS Report demonstrated widespread evidence that NbS can deliver multiple benefits addressing several environmental and societal changes, such as resilience to climate change, reversing biodiversity loss, and restoring ecosystem services simultaneously.
However, there are still many questions being asked about the role, value and inclusivity of NbS, and the great promise of these solutions is yet to be fully realised. The adoption of NbS has been piecemeal and nowhere near the scale needed to address the societal challenges we face.
What’s on the agenda?
This BES symposium will play an important role in pushing the conversation forward by exploring the questions:
- Who benefits?
- Who decides?
- Who pays?
The symposium will identify evidence, knowledge, and gaps, explore blockers to mainstreaming NbS, and looks to support the normalisation of adopting nature as a solution to some of the greatest policy challenges we face.
Important dates
- Registration opens: Tuesday 3 February
- Call for presentations opens: Tuesday 3 February
- Call for presentations closes: Wednesday 25 March, 17:00 (GMT)
- All presentation applicants are informed: week commencing 13 April
- Earlybird discount deadline: Wednesday 27 May, 17:00 (BST)
- Speaker and poster registration deadline: Wednesday 27 May, 17:00 (BST)
- Full programme announced: Week commencing 8 June
- Registration closes: Friday 12 June, 17:00 (BST)
Who should attend?
We are keen to have an audience with a wide range of disciplinary, geographic and practical backgrounds, including:
- Researchers in ecology and cognate disciplines
- Social scientists
- Practitioners
- Policy makers
- Conservationists
- Engineers
- Green investors
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