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Policy-Lab on ‘Integrating Equity and Reframing Urban NbS in South Asian Cities’ to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka
The objective of the Policy Lab is to co-create regional and country specific pathways for incorporating NbS in urban planning and governance to address urgent climate, development and biodiversity issues faced by growing mid-sized cities in South Asia.
Since the mid-2010s, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have received growing attention in the discourse surrounding net-zero ambitions, restoring ecosystems for sequestration, and biodiversity conservation. This framing of NbS has emerged from global policy and the opportunities, trade-offs and processes for implementation have not yet been examined in the context of the developing world, especially for South Asia. Our …