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Green infrastructure, ecosystem restoration, urban nature, wetlands, and nature-based adaptation.
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Brazil’s draft national strategy for urban nature-based solutions sets a 2026–2035 action plan spanning regulation, finance, justice, maintenance and data. Its most important move is to treat nature-based infrastructure as a governed service, not a collection of showcase projects.
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Spain is designing non-competitive grants for agricultural practices and nature-based solutions, beginning with €8.5 million around Doñana.
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Serbia's three-city green-infrastructure challenge separates projects ready for immediate co-financing from promising ideas that first need technical support.
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New Zealand is committing NZ$2 million to begin restoring Whangamarino wetland.
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Brazil has joined new Amazon reserves, long-term forest management, community territorial finance and restoration funding in one policy package.
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Spain's draft plan converts Europe's restoration law into quantified work across habitats, rivers, cities, farms and forests.
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Brazil’s R$618.75 million Rio Doce tender divides 12,500 hectares among five regional delivery partners and gives restoration seven years to move from local diagnosis through establishment, maintenance and monitored adaptation.
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Bogotá is adapting management across 17 wetland reserves as El Niño strengthens, combining irrigation, moisture retention, invasive-species control, surveillance and water monitoring to protect 835,878 square meters already under restoration.
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Natural England recorded more than 240 wildfires on protected sites in 2026 and reported a restored peatland bund slowing fire spread.
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UNEP, Italy and the OECD used UNCCD COP17 to advance a nature-based infrastructure accelerator focused on Central Asia and selected African logistics systems.
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