Cities Mission Conference 2025
Harnessing City Successes: Advancing Climate Action for 2030
NetworkNature is going to the Cities Mission Conference! Join our session: Unlocking Investment for Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Bridging Finance, Policy and Governance for Scaled Impact
Cities are facing serious challenges, including climate change and biodiversity loss. Innovative financial mechanisms are required to achieve net-zero cities and implement Nature-based solutions (NbS).
This session, hosted by NetworkNature and NetZeroCities, will bring together key policymakers, city representatives, and financial experts to explore strategies for mobilizing investment in NbS, aligning climate and biodiversity objectives, and fostering cross-sector collaboration.
In an interactive, fishbowl discussion, participants will gain and share insights into effective governance mechanisms, innovative financing approaches—including market-based instruments—and necessary safeguards that ensure NbS investments deliver long-term environmental, social, and economic benefits. The session will also examine how NbS financing can be integrated into urban planning and climate strategies to remove sectoral silos and enhance resilience.
Key topics include:
- Innovative Financing Mechanisms: Exploring financial tools to mobilise resources that integrate climate and biodiversity goals, including market-driven approaches.
- Policy Integration & Governance: Strengthening collaboration between European and local policymakers, investors, and the private sector to ensure governance frameworks align with financing strategies.
- Equity & Safeguards: Addressing social and environmental safeguards to ensure NbS are inclusive, prevent greenwashing & gentrification, and fairly distribute benefits.
Through innovative examples—including certification frameworks, Urban Nature Plans, and the Berlin Urban Nature Pact—this session will highlight possible pathways for leveraging NbS to accelerate climate neutrality while fostering biodiversity and social equity. These conversations will feed into the NetworkNature annual event, which will focus on the EU priorities of competitiveness and progress.