Featured theme: Nature-based solutions

Nature-based development is vital in an urbanizing world. Nature provides essential services and new economic opportunities, and it protects and enhances the ecosystems that make this possible.

The ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center makes sure that natural capital and ecosystem services are a core part of how we conceptualize and develop our cities. At the World Congress, the CBC, scientists, urban planners, policymakers, conservationists and other key stakeholders will explore nature as a key tool for more sustainable urbanization.

Photo credit: © Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Description: Urban Agriculture Lab at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal