Climate change and rapid urbanization are central challenges to sustainable development in cities of low and middle-income countries.
Nature-based Solutions can address these challenges and offer environmental and social benefits over traditional engineered solutions, and in practice co-exist and positively complement engineered solutions. However, the uptake of NbS in urban planning remains limited and implementation faces several barriers. The need to create enabling environments that incentivize the use of NbS as well as making clear investment cases to attract finance for NbS is omnipresent.
Against this backdrop, this technical report conducted a review of scientific and selected grey literatures to understand central climate impacts and risks in two heavily climate impacted African countries – Zambia and Mauritius – to gauge how Nature-based Solutions could address the identified climate impacts and risks in urban areas there.
This report was developed in the context of the project “Implementation of Urban Nature-based Solutions for Mitigation and Adaptation” funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (Danida).
Download here| Published year: | 2025 |
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| Publisher: | UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre |