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Take part in the 2021 City Nature Challenge
 
 

 

 

It’s easy to get your nature on! Find something wild in your city: an animal, plant or other sign of life. Take a picture. Share it via a mobile app like iNaturalist. Experts will help identify and you can see just how much nature the people in your city can find.

 
 
Enter the AIPH World Green City Awards 2022
 

Is your city using plants in a big way to create a better urban environment? Enter these awards which have just been launched at the AIPH 2021 Green City Conference.

 
 
International Large Urban Parks Award 2021
 

World Urban Parks invites cities to enter their parks in the 2021 International Large Urban Parks Awards. Be recognized for the quality of your parks, the skilled people who manage them and the benefits your parks provide to urban communities

 
We all learned to love nature in lockdown. Now let's turn that into practical action
 

Our cities are dominated by glass buildings that overheat like greenhouses and guzzle energy to cool down. Instead, we could have buildings that are intimately connected to the living systems that have evolved with us and that celebrate what is central to our wellbeing.

 
 
 
 
Green spaces aren’t just for nature – they boost our mental health too
 

We’re beginning to understand just how vital access to natural space is for our mental well-being – with implications for how we design cities worldwide.
 
 
 
 
 
 
What are the benefits of green roofs and green walls? Scientists are calculating that
 

Green roofs and walls provide many benefits, but concerns about costs often hamper their uptake. More and more hard numbers show their value for both individual buildings and larger cityscapes, but their social benefits should be measured more.
 
Emerging Urban Leaders Network
 

Meeting the growing demand for urban green spaces needs bold ideas. This new network created by Salzburg Global Seminar and World Urban Parks is matching architects, urban planners, community organizers, policymakers and conservationists with mentors to develop innovative solutions.
 
 
 
 
 
Biodiversity: we can map the biggest threats to endangered species in your local area
 

What actions would help most to prevent the extinction of particular endangered species in a particular place? A new tool shows what we must do where in order to conserve the most imperiled mammals, birds and amphibians.

 
Saving biodiversity: why our mental and physical health depends on it
 
 

A new study sends us key messages about the nature of our health: Biodiversity is vital to our survival, it helps us to recharge and it gives us a sense of perspective, but habitat loss and the wildlife trade threaten this.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FEATURING OUR CITIES

We are proud to showcase the amazing work of our CitiesWithNature

 

 
Urban Greening for Biodiversity Net Gain: A Design Guide from London
 

How can good urban design boost biodiversity, whilst also creating engaging, healthy and resilient places? This guide introduces simple design considerations that can make space for nature in London and other cities.
 
Kochi in India opens revitalized park
 

The Subhash Bose Park in this coastal city now boasts a pollinator garden and a herbal garden, thanks to the city authorities, ICLEI South Asia and the InteractBio project. People can admire butterflies, moths, honey bees, small birds, and bats attracted to the pollinator garden.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

POST-2020

Keeping you up to date on key moments for biodiversity in the Post-2020 process

 

 
Post-2020 webinars
 

Where are we on the road to Kunming? Cities and regions can still rely on ICLEI’s monthly Post-2020 webinars to stay up to date about the unfolding participatory process ahead of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s major meeting later this year, COP 15. You can join our upcoming webinar - Cities and regions’ solutions to global nature-related challenges on 6 May 2021 - by registering at the link below.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Keeping you up to date with interesting publications and news from our partners and network

 

 
Maps assess the potential of nature-based solutions to address climate change
 

With the Urban Nature Navigator you can assess the contributions that different nature-based solutions can make to meeting urban sustainability challenges and identify the nature-based solutions which fit your needs the best. Thanks to the Naturvation project, 775 European cities now have fine-scaled maps featuring various scenarios and indicators.
 
 
Urban parks and protected areas: on the front lines of a pandemic
 

People flocked to urban parks when they reopened after lockdowns. Many parks were overwhelmed and some challenging new situations occurred, but most park managers were responsive and nimble, a survey across major cities in ten countries has found.

 
 
 
Doctors prescribing more time in nature
 

Patients and healthcare providers in Canada now have a national program to help them with nature prescriptions. PaRx has just been launched by the BC Parks Foundation.

 
(Almost) everything you ever wanted to know about nature-based solutions in Europe
 

This new report by the European Environmental Agency delves into the policy, knowledge and practice of using nature to adapt to climate change and to reduce disaster risk.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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