09/10/2025
14:00 - 14:40
CR B: Forum - Session Room 9
, Hybrid (onsite with livestreaming)
Session with interpretation
Why attend
Build essential knowledge on the landscape of financial mechanisms and enabling conditions that support the design, implementation, and scaling of Nature-based Solutions (NbS). Gain practical insights to address global challenges through effective NbS financing and funding strategies – enhanced by lessons from recent guidance on integrating biodiversity into business decision-making.
Session Description
The session will introduce participants to Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and their benefits for climate, nature and people. It will discuss how to mobilise more financing to scale NbS from public and private sources.Organised by ICLEI and partners, this session will showcase diverse financing models - such as blended finance, public–private partnerships, and philanthropic funding - that support NbS across sectors. Insights on shaping NbS projects to attract funding and financing will be shared, alongside best practices for integrating biodiversity into business strategies. These will draw on the NetworkNature “Guide to the Nature-based Solutions (NbS) Finance Landscape” and the booklet “Guiding Businesses in Integrating Biodiversity and NbS in Decision-Making Processes”.
This session supports the Congress Themes ‘Scaling up resilient conservation action’ and ‘Transitioning to nature-positive economies and societies’ by demonstrating how harmonised NbS financing can drive scalable conservation outcomes, foster resilience, and contribute to nature-positive economies and societies.