Nature-based Solutions Blueprint

Sectors and Themes
Nature-based Solutions and Ecosystem Services
Scale
Sub-national
Resource Type
Guidance and Frameworks
Expertise Level
Practitioner
Specialist
Language
English
Developer or Source
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

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).

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