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Green infrastructure, ecosystem restoration, urban nature, wetlands, and nature-based adaptation.
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Bogotá has amended its water conservation payments rules for strategic areas outside the capital. Project-specific technical documents will establish incentive values, while revised verification language preserves the substantive requirements for payment.
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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.
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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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Discover how Cape Town’s Soet River Catchment Management Forum uses nature-based solutions, community stewardship, and restoration to improve river health.
Read analysisUrban wetlands integrated into green infrastructure systems capture stormwater, filter pollutants, recharge groundwater, and create resilient urban public spaces.
Read analysisUrban flooding is rising as climate change intensifies rainfall.
Read analysisGreen Roofs Urban Sustainability merges architecture and ecology to boost energy efficiency, manage stormwater, enhance biodiversity, and build climate-resilient cities.
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