Unlocking nature for resilience: effective policies for enabling nature-based solutions
Hybrid - Paris World Bank Office
- English
About:
Nature‑based solutions (NBS) are increasingly recognized as essential for addressing climate risks and disaster risk reduction (DRR), while also delivering multiple co-benefits for livelihoods, biodiversity, and sustainable development. Yet, despite growing interest and investment, NBS implementation at scale is often constrained by policy gaps, fragmented sector frameworks, and weak translation from national policy to local action, among other constraints.
Co-hosted by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), this event convenes policymakers, development partners, and practitioners for a strategic discussion on policies to enable NBS upscaling for climate resilience and risk reduction. The event will launch GFDRR’s new publication, Unlocking Nature for Disaster Resilience: A Policy Guide to Enable Nature-Based Solutions, which provides practical guidance on how policies can enable, incentivize, and, where appropriate, require NBS across key sectors and different levels of governance. The event will also feature best practice examples from country case studies to showcase policy approaches that enable NBS in practice and the challenges encountered from policy design to implementation.
The session will conclude with a panel discussion with representatives from the World Bank, OECD, and partner countries to explore how policy ambition can be effectively translated into on-the-ground action to scale up NBS.
Audience:
World Bank and OECD colleagues, development partners, government institutions, and policy experts. Open to external participation via the Zoom Link.
Objectives are to:
- Frame why policy design and coherence are decisive for scaling NBS for climate resilience and DRR.
- Launch Unlocking Nature for Disaster Resilience, presenting key highlights and actionable entry points from the guide.
- Showcase real-world enabling policies and implementation experiences through country presentations.
- Discuss what it needs to move from NBS pilots to enabling policies to scaled action.
Attend:
External attendees are welcome to join the event via Zoom using the link provided .
Date:
Tuesday, 24 March 2026
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time) | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Central European Time)