Nature-based Solutions Addressing societal challenges with nature

The “Nature-based Solutions Journey” will take participants through a series of events, showcasing

the work of the IUCN Members, Secretariat, Commissions and partners, in assessing the work being

done on the different types of NbS interventions (e.g. ecological restoration, ecosystem-based

adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk reduction), and advancing NbS to address global societal

challenges. Come to this Journey to discover what IUCN and its members are doing on NbS, to be a

part of a community, develop and strengthen your networks, contribute to discussions, learn and be

part of the solution!

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Nature-based Solutions

Nature Based Solutions (NbS) are actions to protect, manage, and restore natural or

modified ecosystems, which address societal challenges (e.g. climate change, food and

water security or natural disaster) effectively and adaptively, providing human well-

being and biodiversity benefits. The concept formally emerged in the late 2000s from

policy, when international organisations searched for solutions to use nature to address

societal challenges while protecting natural ecosystems and biodiversity and improving

sustainable livelihoods. Come to this Journey to discover what IUCN and its members

are doing on NbS, to be a part of a community, develop and strengthen your networks,

contribute to discussions, learn and be part of the solution!

Events Programme

Conservation Campus

Knowledge Café

Poster Workshop Pavilion High-level

session Conservation

Case

Time Session

ID Title

Event type Organizer Location

Friday 2 September 2016

11:00 - 13:00

13825

A Changing Climate: Championing Nature-Based Solutions

High-level

session IUCN Ballroom B

11:00 -13:00

12291

Multi-sectoral technical approaches to forest landscape restoration using the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)

Pavilion event

IUCN Forests Pavilion

11:00-17:00

10617

Towards a new win-win approach: biodiversity conservation for disaster risk reduction

Conservation campus IUCN 304A

14:30-16:30

10295

Nature-based Solutions to address Global Societal Challenges

Workshop CEM 313B

14:30 - 16:30

9698

Megacities and Watersheds - Safeguarding Water for Cities through Nature-based Solutions

Workshop IUCN China

Country Office 318A

14:00 -14:30

10489

Reciprocal Restoration: Partnerships for Ecological and Social Benefits

Poster Parks Canada Screen 16

17:00-19:00

10255

Ecosystems and Society in a Changing World: Experience, Exchange, and Learning about EbA and Eco-DRR that Works!

Workshop The Nature

Conservancy 316A

17:00 - 18:00

12295

Natural capital in practice: How can an ecosystem services approach build support for forest landscape restoration and lead to more strategic investments?

Pavilion Natural Capital Project

Forests Pavilion

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Time Session

ID Title

Event type Organizer Location

18:00 - 19:00

12296

Forest landscape restoration and the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology in South America

Pavilion

IUCN Brazil Forests Pavilion

19:30 -21:30

12297

Pau Hana Book Launch: 'Forest Landscape Restoration in Brazil'

Pavilion IUCN Brazil

Forests Pavilion

Saturday 3 September 2016

08:30 - 10:30

10322

Nature based solutions for mental health

Workshop Sea Mar Community

Health Centers 313C

8:30 -13:00

10205

Making Ecosystem based Adaptation Effective: Evidence from the field to improve policy and practice

Conservation Campus IUCN 305B

11:00 -12:00

12300

Forest landscape restoration for livelihoods, land-use planning, climate and conservation in West and Central Africa

Pavilion

IUCN Forests Pavilion

14:00 -14:30

9932

The role of traditional knowledge for adapting to climate change and related hazards

Poster

Association pour la

Promotion des Oeuvres Sociales

Screen 24

14:30-15:30

12302

Forest landscape restoration in Mexico: The importance of building partnerships to undertake and communicate restoration

Pavilion Reforestamos

Mexico Forests Pavilion

14:30 - 16:30

10266

Can the nexus mobilise nature based solutions for water security?

Workshop IUCN 313C

15:30 -16:30

12303

Experiences in forest landscape restoration: From the forests of Central America to the world

Pavilion Fundecor

Forests Pavilion

15:30 - 16:30

12487

Protected Areas as natural solutions for disasters and climate change

Pavilion IUCN

Protected Planet Pavilion

17:00 - 18:00

12304

Governance and forest landscape restoration

Pavilion mansourian.org

Forests Pavilion

17:00 - 19:00

9654

Conservation organizations as agents of social empowerment: Applying nature-based solutions to forward human rights and conservation goals

Workshop Chicago

Botanic Garden 316B

Sunday 4 September 2016

8:30 -10:30

12307

Nature protects us: Managing ecosystems for disaster risk reduction (DRR)

Pavilion IUCN

Forests Pavilion

11:00 - 13:00

10666

Nature Based Solutions for Sustainable Development

Conservation Case CEM & IUCN 313A

11:00 -13:00

10383

In search of resilience: reflecting on EbA experiences in Pacific small island contexts

Knowledge

Café SPREP 311-12

15:30 - 16:30

12497

Resilient Protected Areas - Natural Solution to Climate Change: proposing practical tools

Pavilion WWF

International Protected

Planet Pavilion

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Time Session

ID Title

Event type Organizer Location

17:00 - 19:00

10414

Applying nature-based approach in achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Small Island States (SIDS)

Knowledge

Café

United Nations Office for

Sustainable Development

311-10

17:00 - 19:00

10229

Local and subnational governments leading the way for biodiversity action

Workshop GIZ 316B

17:00-19:00

9802

Nature et catastrophes naturelles : quelle mise en œuvre ?

Knowledge Cafe IUCN 311-2

17:00-19:00

11364

Learning and education tools for ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and resilience building

Conservation

campus CEM 309

18:00 -19:00

12193

Launch of Nature-based Solutions report

Pavilion CEM & IUCN Water Pavilion

Monday 5 September 2016

9:30-10:30

9676

World Heritage Sites for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem based- Disaster Risk Reduction

Workshop

Wildlife Institute of

India 313B

11:00 - 13:00

10274

Scaling up to the challenge: Protected areas as natural solution

Workshop

IUCN 315

11:00-13:00

10376

La nature, une solution pour réduire le risque de catastrophes naturelles

Knowledge Cafe

Centre de Suivi Ecologique de Dakar-Senegal

311-12

13:00 - 13:30

10084

Community-driven & nature-based strategies to address the global water crisis

Poster Surge for

Water Screen 25

14:30 - 16:30

10248

Innovative initiatives for biodiversity: showcasing nature based solutions, decentralized cooperation and innovative financing

Workshop

IUCN FRANCE 316B

14:30 - 16:30

10238

Scaling up Nature-Based Solutions for Adaptation and Building Resilience: Linking Practice and Policies

Workshop

IIED 312

Other E-posters (screened throughout the forum)

Session ID Title Event type Organizer

9846

Synergizing implementing Eco-DRR and biodiversity conservation

Poster IUCN

9957

Assessing the hazard of snow avalanches and landslides using ecosystem-based DRR in the Chilean Andes

Poster SLF

10529 Protected areas: a key tool for disaster risk reduction Poster IUCN

9951

Joint action for Zimbabwe's environment - Nature based solutions and the key to partnerships

Poster Environment

Africa

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*The Nature-based Solutions Journey is not a comprehensive list of all events relevant to

Nature-based Solutions. You can use the Congress app to create your own personal journey.

The events search function on the Congress Portal is also a very effective tool. See here.

Contacts

Ms. Angela Andrade

E-mail: aandrade@conservation.org

Dr. Emmanuelle Cohen-Shacham

E-mail: minacs@gmail.com

Mr Ali Raza Rizvi

Email: Ali.raza@iucn.org

Organized by the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management: