Learning Units

Lecture

Challenges in financing and implementing NBS

The unit starts with a succinct overview of NBS initiatives and their importance in meeting the 2050 carbon-neutrality goal as oultined in the European Green Deal and European Green Law.  Financing NBS ramifications are multifaceted in a sustainable economy.

Topic: NBS and new business and investment models

Educational Level: Higher Education

Language:  English

Organisation: TCD

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Challenges in financing and implementing NBS

Field trip/site visit

Exploring Biodiversity and Conversation Strategies of NBS using GreenComp

This learning unit offers hands-on examples of nature-based solutions in practice through a site visit or field study. The PowerPoint offers prompts and questions to maximise the learning and reflection on NBS strategies related to biodiversity and conservation. The LU starts with NBS definitions, the link to GreenComp: The European Sustainability Competence Framework  and how elements of the field study/site visit may enhance some of these skills and competences. The field study/site visit provides a structure to enable a teacher to offer learners some context on choosing a good NBS site, and how NBS can contribution to biodiversity and conservation through reflective questions drawing on elements of GreenComp.

Topic: Biodiversity

Educational Level: Higher Education

Language:  English

Organisation: TCD

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Exploring Biodiversity and Conversation Strategies of NBS using GreenComp

Workshop

Introducing UbN for learning on wastewater treatment NBS

Join and explore the topic of NBS for wastewater treatment and its benefits for a more sustainable wastewater management, including wastewater treatment and reuse at the source, as well as increased greening and biodiversity, and engage in a multi-stakeholder discussion for identifying common regulatory, governamental and financial barriers and ways to overcome them for the mainstreaming of cross-collaborative frameworks and co-design of these solutions in the learners individual settings.

Topic: Multi-functional watershed management

Educational Level: Professional

Language:  English

Organisation: ICLEI Europe

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Introducing UbN for learning on wastewater treatment NBS

Lecture

Public procurement for NBS

This unit provides an understanding of public procurment, and highlights its role in the promoting amd implementing NBS in urban areas by providing an overview of procurement practices, challenges, and opportunities for using public procurement to implement NBS projects.

Topic: Green infrastructure

Educational Level: Professional

Language:  English

Organisation: PPMI

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Public procurement for NBS

European Union

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