#NbS4India Connect: Accelerating Nature-based Solutions (NbS) across urban India

Special Feature | Maintenance Models for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in Public Spaces for Mumbai’s Vulnerable Neighborhoods

WRI India recently published the workshop proceedings summarizing the reflections of stakeholders from a workshop hosted in October 2023 in partnership with Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA). The workshop was conducted to explore collaborative maintenance models for the ecological restoration of underused public open spaces in Mumbai’s low-income communities. Key challenges such as lack of collaborative action, land governance issues, and the absence of integrated funding mechanisms of NbS were identified by stakeholders. The takeaways from the workshop included the importance of participatory approaches, stakeholder integration throughout the project lifecycle, the design of ecologically suitable and easy to maintain solutions and others.  

Read the workshop proceedings here: https://bit.ly/4aF3b7I 

CEEW joins the India Forum for Nature-based Solutions

We are thrilled that the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) has joined the India Forum for Nature-based Solutions as a core partner. CEEW is one of Asia’s leading not-for-profit policy research institutions and among the world’s top climate think tanks and has a footprint in over 20 Indian states. CEEW’s inclusion strengthens our collaboration to help scale up the adoption of NbS to shape climate resilient cities and communities in India. Welcome, CEEW! 

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5. Siliguri's Biodiversity: a Model for Urban Ecology and Sustainable Development 

#NbS4India #ClimateSimplified Series  

The India Forum for NbS, in collaboration with the City Climate Alliance, presents the #ClimateSimplified video series. The series aims to dejargonise technical terms related to NbS. Watch the fourth video of the series to better understand what is the ‘Urban Heat Island’ effect:

Would you like us to simplify any other climate-related terms? Please feel free to let us know in the comments section or tweet in using the hashtag #NbS4India 

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