Author/Contact:
By Almássy, Dóra; Feliu Torres, Efren and Matesanz Parellada, Angela
Resource description:
Nature-based solutions (NBS) are locally adapted, cost- and resource-efficient, systemic interventions, which can simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits and build resilience to climate change.1 As such they have a real and transformative potential to address the two-fold planetary emergency of climate change and biodiversity loss, while positively affecting human health and societal wellbeing. However, to realise their transformative potential of NBS, their practical implementation must be accelerated and the evidence-base of NBS outcomes and impacts must be further strengthened. 2 As implementation efforts accelerate, it also becomes more important to ensure that implemented NBS interventions set highquality standards for their own operations and for future projects.