Learning Days and Annual Event 2025
Nature-based Solutions in Practice: Insights, Inclusion & Impact
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are increasingly integrated into climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction (DRR) efforts, yet practitioners often face unclear definitions, unrealistic expectations, and limited guidance on implementation. This event invites a grounded conversation on what NbS can—and cannot—achieve in real-world contexts. Together, we will explore practical examples, discuss how to ensure inclusivity and tangible local benefits, and unpack the challenges of financing and sustaining NbS over time. With a focus on applied insights, this event aims to support practitioners in navigating the complexities of designing and delivering effective, equitable, and context-specific NbS interventions.
Are you supporting and implementing projects and programmes related to climate change and disaster risk reduction, with an interest in learning and exchanging on the importance of NbS for climate and disaster resilience?
Join us to share and learn from existing experience of platform member organizations and their partners, as well as other organizations and stakeholders involved in providing, using and, assessing NbS in the context of international cooperation.
10 September Online
Webinars
– Working with Nature: An Introduction to Nature-based Solutions (EN, FR, SP)
– Nature-based Solutions in Displacement Settings (EN, FR)
11 September Online
Webinars
– Working with Nature: An Introduction to Nature-based Solutions (EN) – repetition
– Implementing Nature-based Solutions with Academic Insight (EN, FR)
– Valuing Nature-based Solutions benefits with emphasis on social impact and climate adaptation – A guide for practitioners (EN, FR, SP)
12 September in Berne, 2-5 pm, on-site only
Swiss NGO DRR Platform Annual Event, followed by an apéro riche
Localizing Nature-based Solutions: Key Drivers of Success from Different Perspectives
Important: This event is on-site only, no online participation possible!
Contact
In case of questions, please contact the NbS working group:
Maria Claudelin (Caritas Switzerland)
