Date: Tuesday, 30 June
Time: two options to accommodate different time zones:
6:00 AM Philadelphia / 12:00 PM Paris (Asia, Africa, Europe) - Register here
11:00 AM Philadelphia / 5:00 PM Paris (LAC, Africa, Europe) - Register here
Location: Virtual Webinar
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About the Event
Investments in urban nature and nature-based adaptation solutions are consistently undervalued and undercounted. When investments are undercounted, communities and policymakers are less aware of them as public investments and less likely to consider them budget priorities. Mapping, tracking, and assessing nature investments across an entire city budget provides important baseline data for assessing performance and supports cost-benefit analysis. Connecting program data to community planning goals also clarifies how they contribute to objectives such as public health, climate adaption and quality of life.
This webinar will review the Urban Nature-based Investment Assessment Framework developed by the University of Pennsylvania with inputs and feedback from UNEP’s Generational Restoration cities. Designed to provide a simple foundation on which cities can customize objectives and priorities, the webinar will show how the baseline framework can adapt to local conditions and knowledge and review the categories, assumptions and guidance in the framework.
The team will also review phase 2 of the project, which tested the framework by expanding and linking it to an Urban Nature-based Planning Assessment Framework – the first step in connecting any budget baseline to investment decision-making. The team will talk about how they created preliminary “beta” profiles for all the Generation Restoration Cities and what they learned about nature-based investment tracking at the local level.
Contact: yulia.rubleva@un.org
