Nature-based Solutions: Who benefits, who decides, who pays?

Nature-based Solutions: Who benefits, who decides, who pays?

29-30 June 2026, STEM Learning Centre, York

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) became an internationally recognised term at the 5th UN Environment Assembly in 2022, to describe interventions that can harness the power of the natural world to help address the climate and nature crises, whilst delivering local benefits for biodiversity and people. The 2021 BES NbS Report demonstrated that widespread evidence that NbS can deliver multiple benefits addressing several environmental and societal changes, such as resilience to climate change, reversing biodiversity loss, and restoring ecosystem services simultaneously.

However, there are still many questions being asked about the role, value and inclusivity of NbS, and the great promise of these solutions is yet to be fully realized. The adoption of NbS has been piecemeal and nowhere near the scale needed to address the societal challenges we face.