Cities worldwide are facing resilience challenges as climate risks interact with urbanization, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, poverty and rising socioeconomic inequality. Extreme precipitation events, flooding, heatwaves and droughts are causing economic losses, social insecurity and affecting well-being.
This catalogue supports the growing demand for nature-based solutions (NBS) to these challenges by enabling an initial identification of potential investments in NBS to enhance urban resilience.
It complements and builds on other knowledge products on NBS developed by the World Bank to support the integration of NBS in investment projects. The document represents a selection of prevailing thinking around urban NBS in a quickly evolving and growing field.