Nature-Based Infrastructure: How Natural Infrastructure Solutions Can Address Sustainable Development Challenges and the Triple Planetary Crisis

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationPolicy and Programme Division
dc.contributor.otherHaggis, Robyn
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-16T12:44:42Z
dc.date.available2023-11-16T12:44:42Z
dc.date.issued2023-11
dc.description This report examines how nature-based infrastructure can support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement, and the Global Biodiversity Framework. It identifies five functions through which nature delivers infrastructure benefits and finds that nature-based infrastructure across eight sectors can influence up to 79% of Sustainable Development Goal targets, increasing to 95% when combined with built infrastructure. Across individual sectors, integrating nature-based and built infrastructure can influence 24–47% more targets than built infrastructure alone by providing multiple co-benefits. The report concludes that nature-based infrastructure uniquely supports simultaneous progress across these global frameworks while helping direct infrastructure investment towards closing the nature finance gap. en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.59117/20.500.11822/44022
dc.identifier.isbn978-92-807-4099-8
dc.identifier.otherDTI/2590/GE
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/44022
dc.languageEnglish
dc.page.number82 p.
dc.publisherUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.relation.TableOfContentsDefinitions Key Messages Introduction Global Challenges The Role of Infrastructure in Global Challenges Nature-Based Infrastructure Solutions The Need to Get Infrastructure Decisions Right A Framework for Thinking About NbI Potential Benefits of NbI Assessment of the Scale of Benefit That NbI Can Provide to Infrastructure Deliver Function Enhance Function Protect Function Workforce Function Multiple Additional Benefits The Risk of Overlooking Nature in Decision-Making The Benefits of NbI for Addressing Global Challenges Sustainable Development Goals Climate Adaptation Climate Mitigation Biodiversity Synergized Progress on Multiple Global Policy Agendas The Cost-Effectiveness of NbI Closing the Infrastructure and Nature Financing Gaps Barriers Limits to Performance Variations in Functional Performance Time Delays to Benefit Provision Resilience of NbI Data and Information Availability Management and Maintenance Human, Technical, and Institutional Capacity Trade-Offs Stakeholder Alignment and Collaboration Costs and Who Pays Transboundary Decision-Making Recommendations Concluding Remarks References
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subject.sdgSDG 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
dc.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate Action
dc.subject.themeeconomics
dc.subject.themefinance
dc.subject.themenatural areas
dc.subject.themelandscape
dc.subject.themeecosystems
dc.titleNature-Based Infrastructure: How Natural Infrastructure Solutions Can Address Sustainable Development Challenges and the Triple Planetary Crisisen
dc.typeNon-technical guideline

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