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Financing nature-based solutions through the lens of behavioural economics

Blogs | November 29, 2024

Cooling effects, improved air quality, better water drainage, and increased biodiversity: it’s widely agreed that our cities need more nature-based solutions (NBS). Yet, despite their clear benefits, securing funding for their implementation remains a struggle. Why are NBS primarily funded by publi […]

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Mapping the financial landscape for Nature-based Solutions

Blogs | October 31, 2024

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) hold immense potential for addressing environmental challenges, but unlocking their full power requires innovative financing mechanisms and increased private sector participation. In our recent project report (Deliverable 3.3), “Markets, financing and incentives for NbS […]

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Balancing Profit and Planet: The Complex Landscape of NBS in Business

Blogs | October 25, 2024

U-Sentric has conducted a survey in Invest4Nature designated in finding out the perceptions of the private sector on Nature-based Solution and the implications of the EU’s regulatory framework. The private sector’s attitude towards Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and the EU’s regulatory framework reve […]

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EU Nature Restoration Law and the role of Nature-based Solutions

Blogs | October 9, 2024

On August 18th of 2024, the EU Nature Restoration Law came into force with the main objective of recovering ecosystems, habitats and species across EU’s land and sea areas. For the first time ever, the EU sets a legal framework with binding targets not only for nature preservation but also its rest […]

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NBS: Affordable and Multifunctional Solutions for Aarhus’ Urban Challenges

Blogs | August 30, 2024

In the City of Aarhus, we face various man-made challenges that require us to take a stand and initiate actions to meet these challenges. The challenges are related to pollution of groundwater, decline in biodiversity, adaptation to more water in the city, the climate crisis and in general to ensur […]

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Poznan’s Green Schoolyard Programme

Blogs | August 14, 2024

Located in the heart of western Poland, Poznań is on a mission to become a climate-resilient city through the strategic use of open green spaces. Our living lab in Poznań serves as a dynamic platform for exploring the benefits of nature-based solutions (NbS). Expanding urban greenspaces One of our […]

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Agility in co-producing Invest4Nature outputs with stakeholders

Blogs | July 30, 2024

The agile approach is commonly used in the business world because it focuses on user needs to help ensure end products are fit for purpose. Can we apply this same thinking to improve the outputs of Invest4Nature? How do we add value to Invest4Nature’s products? Being agile and wanting to co-produce […]

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Widening the tent: getting business and enterprise involved in urban greening

Blogs | May 2, 2024

Highlights from the TNOC Festival Panel More than 80% of nature-based solutions (NbS) are funded by the public sector and historically, these solutions have often been delivered by the public sector too. More recently, we have seen communities become involved in the planning, delivery and stewardsh […]

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UN Ocean Decade Side Event organized by NIVA

Blogs | April 24, 2024

In collaboration with partners from NetworkNature, GoNaturePositive and C-FAARER, and as part of the Invest4Nature project, NIVA organized the off-site satellite event on Financing Nature-based Solutions (NBS) for a Sustainable Blue Economy. This hybrid event, held on 9 April, served as a platform […]

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Blog: Bridging benefits and economics with Invest4Nature

Blogs | February 27, 2024

On July 1st, 2022, JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH – LIFE, the Institute for Climate, Energy and Society (JR) and 14 Partners and Living Labs from 8 different European countries started into the Horizon Europe Project “Invest4Nature – the economics of Nature-based Solutions”. The motiv […]

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10TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ONSUSTAINABLE CITIES & TOWNS

📅1-3 October 2024📍Aalborg, Denmark Raising the bar for a more sustainable future The 10th European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns (ESCT) will take place on 1-3 October in Aalborg, Denmark. All cities, partners and experts seeking to contribute to the sustainable transformation of our cities and regions are cordially invited to attend the 2024…

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UNP+ Cities Questionnaire: Capacity Building Needs for Urban Nature Plans

Are you a representative of a City or Municipal authority in Europe? Our survey is aimed to evaluate capacity building needs for local authorities across the EU. It is intended for local authority participants (and their representatives) from EU cities of over 20,000 inhabitants, who are involved in urban greening and/or urban nature planning. The…

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Agility in co-producing Invest4Nature outputs with stakeholders

The agile approach is commonly used in the business world because it focuses on user needs to help ensure end products are fit for purpose. Can we apply this same thinking to improve the outputs of Invest4Nature? How do we add value to Invest4Nature’s products? Being agile and wanting to co-produce outputs with stakeholders is…

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Just released: Newsletter Issue #3

Time flies when you’re working on nature-based solutions! This July, Invest4Nature will have been running for 2 years. In that time, our consortium has been working very hard on all fronts on our mission. In the last year we’ve made leaps on understanding the different perspectives of stakeholders in the field, bring to light the…

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Nature-based Solutions Conference 2024: Growing Positive Change

📅18-20 June 2024📍Oxford, UK Over three days and nine sessions, we will bring together interdisciplinary researchers with practitioners and decision makers from the public and private sectors, as well as Indigenous voices from around the world, to discuss and co-create an action plan for nature-based solutions to support positive social-environmental change. We will examine the…

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The Nature of Cities Festival 2024

Pushing the boundaries of collaborative engagement, drawing urban thought leaders and changemakers together to build better cities. Following the virtual sessions on the 15th -25th of April, comes the in-person event in Berlin! A three week series of interconnected events. 📅3-7 June 2024📍Berlin TNOC Festival is knowledge-centered, knowledge-led, and action-driven. The 2024 theme of “Action” focuses…

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NATURANCE Finance Innovation Festival

Insurance and Investment Opportunities for Nature-based Solutions 📅23-24 May 2024📍Laxenburg, Austria The first NATURANCE Festival is set to take place on May 23-24, 2024, in Laxenburg, Austria. The festival aims to bring together various communities involved in climate risk assessment, policy analysis, financial innovation, and advocacy for nature-based solutions. Its objectives include: Please find attached more information on the event,…

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Accelerating urban nature-based solutions: A Latin America-European collaboration

📅15-17 May 2024📍Barcelona, Spain Cities face urgent global and local challenges to support biodiversity, social cohesion, wellbeing, livelihoods and resilience to climate change. We need nature-based solutions and restored ecosystems to address these priorities. Invaluable experience and good practice exist around the world in many different socio-cultural, ecological and governance contexts. There is now a…

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Widening the tent: getting business and enterprise involved in urban greening

Everyone knows that city councils and communities play an important role in urban greening. But what about business and enterprises? Much less is known about their involvement – what challenges and opportunities do they face? What changes would they like to see? These and many other questions are explored in this blog post which draws…

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UN Ocean Decade Side Event organized by NIVA

In collaboration with partners from NetworkNature, GoNaturePositive and C-FAARER, and as part of the Invest4Nature project, NIVA organized the off-site satellite event on Financing Nature-based Solutions (NBS) for a Sustainable Blue Economy. This hybrid event, held on 9 April, served as a platform to discuss ongoing projects such as Invest4Nature, C-FAARER, and GoNaturePositive. It was…

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NBE Survey Intermediary Results Shared at Nature Futures 2024

Nature Futures 2024 assembled leading entrepreneurs from various sectors including regenerative agriculture, forestry, tourism, green buildings, and the blue economy. They gathered to deliberate on the challenges and opportunities confronting nature-based enterprises in their respective fields, as well as the broader scaling of nature-based solutions. Oisin Klinkenbergh was the first to speak at Nature Futures,…

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Blog: Bridging benefits and economics with Invest4Nature

On July 1st, 2022, JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH – LIFE, the Institute for Climate, Energy and Society (JR) and 14 Partners and Living Labs from 8 different European countries started into the Horizon Europe Project “Invest4Nature – the economics of Nature-based Solutions”. The motivation for this project was that it was evident from other projects…

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How does exploitation work? Overcome the Valley of Death with innovation management activities.

European Commission funds innovative ideas, research, and solutions with the aim of boosting the EU’s competitiveness and growth. Besides that, the Horizon Europe programme shall help to tackle climate change and to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. As an expert in Exploitation, also called innovation management, Steinbeis Europa Zentrum works as an enabler and…

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Open survey: Nature-based enterprises

Are you an enterprise working with and for nature on nature-based solutions? Then we invite you to take part in Invest4Nature’s open survey ! We in Invest4Nature are seeking to understand the supply side of the nature-based solutions (NBS) market in Europe. This is key meeting the existing demand and achieving biodiversity net gain by…

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Invest4Nature Newsletter #2 is out!

We’ve published our second issue of the Invest4Nature Newsletter! Read more to catch up on the latest progress of our partners in enabling more investments in nature-based solutions!

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Rooted in Resilience: Tyrolean Protective Forests and Climate Solutions

Tyrol – Heart of the Alps. A landscape covered by rugged mountains and rolling valleys. Here, forests play a special role, a constant presence on the mountain sides, yet dynamic and ever changing like the seasons. The Alpine region of Tyrol has a long tradition in handling natural hazards. With only 12 % habitable area,…

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Blog: Driving Local solutions for Modena: “Rewriting the adaptation narrative” at CAIC 2023

Climate Alliance International Conference (CAIC) 2023 in Modena Invest4Nature was represented at this year’s Climate Alliance International Conference, which took place from October 18th to October 20th in Modena, Italy. Apart from Climate Alliance, the city network of Energy Cities was also present at the conference, with had more than 400 registered participants from over…

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Boosting greenery in Poznan with private investment

Situated in Poland, Poznan is one of the country’s oldest cities. It boasts a unique ecological landscape characterized by a configuration of ‘green wedges’ arising due to its landscape features, historical conditions, and system of river valleys. The city is surrounded by natural spaces along river valleys in both north-south and east-west directions. In areas…

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Afforestation projects and financing mechanisms within the Aarhus Living Lab

The Aarhus municipality in Denmark invests about 600.000 € per year on afforestation projects on former agricultural land to provide much needed recreational areas for a growing population in the second largest city in Denmark. This serves to protect the drinking water resource and surface water quality, and to sequester carbon and improve biodiversity over…

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Blog: Insights from the Cities Talk Nature Conference

Climate Alliance represented Invest4Nature at the “Cities Talk Nature Conference: Unlocking the Potential of Underutilized Urban Areas” organized by the Interlace project on Thursday, May 11th, and Friday, May 12th, 2023, in Chemnitz, Germany. The conference centered around the crucial role of creating and preserving urban nature in the face of climate and biodiversity crises.…

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Published! Invest4Nature’s first Newsletter

Invest4Nature’s first newsletter is here! Since our Kick-off meeting in Graz, Austria, our project has been off to a good start! What to expect in this first issue ? We’ve brought together the most important basics about Invest4Nature and asked our consortium partners to tell us more:

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How EU Taxonomy supports investments in Nature

Invest4Nature Expert Linda Romanovska (Melomys Advisory), is an appointed member of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance (“The Platform”) – the technical high-level advisory body to the European Commission tasked with the development of EU Taxonomy of sustainable economic activities. Last month the Platform started work on the second 2-year mandate. In this article Linda…

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