The webinar, co-organised by NATURANCE and Invest4Nature projects, has been the final event of the first Naturethon initiative. It discussed financing frameworks with an impact, drawing special attention to cities and the social value of nature-inspired solutions for adaptation in the urban environment.

Silvia Ainio, a climate policy expert specializing in international climate negotiations and sustainable finance, provided a global overview of the main challenges in financing nature-based solutions, particularly related to scaling up the role of the private sector, and illustrated a few innovative examples on how could these be overcome.

Following, Marianne Zandersen, professor in environmental economics at Aarhus University, Denmark, talked about social and economic benefits and values from NbS at the urban scale, focusing on well-being and health values. She showed an example of a mixed method approach that considers the multiple values that we might assign to NbS on the benefits, importance and usefulness of NbS.