Event Title: ENACT Stories from the Ground: What Does Successful vs Unsuccessful Nature-Based Solutions Look Like?
Date: Friday 10 October 2025
Location: Programme Pavilion, Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 14:00 – 15:30 (GST)
Background
Whilst the role of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) is recognised as paramount for addressing interrelated environmental crises and ensuring people’s wellbeing, gaps remain in achieving and communicating effective implementation. This session will be an antidote to that shortfall through case-study presentations illuminating NbS implementation barriers and enablers in conjunction with candid dialogue between ENACT Partners and participants on solutions for overcoming challenges. Key themes in case-study presentations will provide a red thread for ensuing discussions; however, the interactive segment will employ an adaptive structure to allow for more creative and dynamic dialogue. The themes initially introduced stem from the latest understanding of NbS implementation gaps and include misrepresentation of NbS and thus controversies emergent from its misapplication, limited clarity on the potential of NbS to address multiple crises and critically advance gender equality and social inclusion, and a dearth of publicly available information on scalable, replicable and bankable NbS.
Expected Outcomes
- Increased awareness of effective NbS implementation strategies that integrate gender and social inclusion, with a particular focus on strengthening the agency of women and youth.
- Identification of key challenges and innovative solutions through a combination of ENACT Partner presentations and active participant contributions.
- Strengthened collaboration between stakeholders to support the continued advancement and communication of effective NbS implementation, both under the ENACT Partnership and in related initiatives.
- Development of an action-oriented recommendation brief informed by session discussions to contribute to the ENACT policy paper for UNFCCC COP30 and inform future NbS implementation-focused guidance materials.
Agenda and speakers to be shared soon.
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