This Blueprint is a fundamental guidance on how companies can build business cases for using Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to address their challenges and opportunities – while also delivering positive impact on climate, nature and equity.
Drawing on eight case studies from WBCSD members, this work lays out a six-stage process for companies to follow, from first identifying opportunities to use NbS through to balanced decision-making between NbS and more traditional options.
It provides guidance for business in any sector to:
- identify key business challenges and opportunities,
- explore NbS relevant to the company’s challenges and opportunities,
- collect information on overall impacts and benefits to the business from the chosen NbS,
- identify the design and implementation process required,
- estimate costs of NbS activities, and
- compare NbS options to other solutions across full range of benefits and costs.
In addition, WBCSD has developed a complementary tool – the Nature-based Solutions Map that organises NbS activities by the value that they offer to businesses and society (as well as the biomes/regions where each NbS can be applied).