Success Story 12. NetworkNature – Advancing Standards for Nature-Based Solutions [Project: NetworkNature; Experts: René Lindner, Diana Soeiro]

This document presents the NetworkNature Project experience with HSBooster.eu services

NetworkNature recognised a critical need to integrate Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) into the standardisation landscape to ensure broader recognition, impact, and adoption. As a platform encompassing over 80 European projects across diverse topics — including under others NbS in cities, coastal areas, and wetlands — NetworkNature identified raising awareness of standardisation among its Task Forces as the most effective way to generate momentum. Engaging HSBooster experts was pivotal in achieving this objective, helping to map the challenges, risks, and priorities associated with NbS implementation. Understanding the standards landscape was crucial for aligning the project’s outcomes with relevant standards and creating pathways for meaningful contributions. NetworkNature sought strategic guidance to engage with standardisation bodies, foster collaboration between Task  Forces and technical committees, and explore the potential for a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) to accelerate the standardisation of outputs generated by its five Task Forces. These efforts aimed to address practical challenges such as ensuring data reliability, quantifying the economic value of NbS benefits, and promoting inclusive governance models.

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