Mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions for Adaptation in Urban Areas

When: Monday 23rd October at 14:00-15:00 (EST)
Where: Contadora III, Marriott Panama Hotel, Panama City
Organizers: UNEP, IUCN, ICLEI

This is an official side-event to the Latin America and the Caribbean Climate Week 2023.

Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urban populated region in the world. Healthy, functioning, and resilient ecosystems lay the foundation for sustainable economic development, food and water security, disaster risk reduction and climate resilience in cities. The impacts of climate change pose unique risks to densely populated urban areas – and thus, the role of nature-based solutions (NbS) as part of adaptation strategies in urban areas is critical.

Convened by ICLEI, IUCN and UNEP, the event aims to bring together projects and initiatives working on NbS for adaptation in the urban areas in the region to share experiences and promising practices. The session will foster constructive multi-stakeholder dialogues to jointly define solutions and recommendations for greening the cities and mainstreaming NbS for adaptation in urban areas showcasing the experience of city-to-city cooperation.

Some of the key objectives from the session include:

• Sharing experiences and lessons learned, and identify opportunities for mainstreaming NbS for adaptation in urban areas;
• Collectively identifying replicable solutions and recommendations in response to the common challenges;
• Spurring multi-stakeholder dialogues and strategies to upscale NbS for climate-resilient cities in the region.

For more information, please contact Norah.Ngeny@un.org and angela.priasmahecha@un.org