Climate change is felt acutely in cities through unprecedented heatwaves, floods, and climate-related disasters. Cities, home to over half the world’s population and major contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions, are increasingly vulnerable to these impacts.

Nature-based solutions (NbS) offer a powerful pathway for addressing these challenges. They can reduce heat stress, regulate temperatures, enhance stormwater management and mitigate floods while improving air and water quality, restoring habitats and ecological connectivity, and creating social and health co-benefits.

Rooted in Nature: Advancing Nature-Based Solutions from National Policy to Local Action supports practitioners both at the national and local municipal levels unlock this potential, based on tried and tested approaches developed by cities around the world.