Invest4Nature (full name: Promoting investments in NbS and accelerating market uptake by gaining a better understanding of the economic performance of NbS, considering climate mitigation and risk reduction).
Invest4Nature is an EU-funded project that contributes to the creation of a market for nature-based solutions.
The world is experiencing a severe climate and biodiversity crisis. The EU’s strategy to tackle this crisis – the Green Deal – considers nature-based solutions as a key measure. Therefore, it supports projects that contribute its further development. The environmental, social and economic benefits of the solutions are manifold: from the mitigation and adaptation to climate change (including the reduction of urban heat island effects and flood mitigation) to the increased well-being for citizens.
However, these benefits are not yet fully understood and there is currently no standard method to calculate the economic and financial benefits of such nature-based solutions e.g. in the reduction of climate risks which are important for financial stakeholders such as investors and insurances.
Invest4Nature will:
- Create an evaluation framework of nature-based solutions to allows the valuation of risks reductions by NbS as well as sound cost-benefit analyses and the development of business models,
- Provide evidence on the benefits NbS in in coastal, urban, rural and mountainous scenarios by evaluating 5 existing cases in Norway, Denmark, Poland, Austria and Portugal which will serve as Living Labs,
- Develop a Decision Support System and a communication toolbox for NbS to meet the needs of investors.
Over the course of 4 years, 15 partners will contribute to a better understanding of the economic and financial performance of nature-based solutions.
The improved understanding is needed to promote upscaling, to attract investments in the measures and to serve as a basis for the development of a market to enable a broad deployment of nature-based solutions.
Get in contact:
Project coordination team: Andreas Tuerk / Ingrid Kaltenegger, Joanneum Research
emails: andreas.tuerk(at)joanneum.at / ingrid.kaltenegger(at)joanneum.at
Dissemination contact: Steinbeis Europa Zentrum,
email: info(at)invest4nature.eu
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