Essentials of the Guidance
The Guidance is designed to help regions select and design NbS and BGI that are tailored to their specific climate risks, societal needs, and local circumstances. It serves as a practical “guide to the guidelines”, facilitating access to relevant resources and best practices for effective and sustainable implementation.
NbS and BGI must be tailored to local environmental, social, and economic contexts. The guide emphasizes the importance of co-design with stakeholders and long-term strategic planning to maximize benefits and address climate change challenges.
The document identifies common barriers such as scale, funding, expertise gaps, social equity, and policy constraints. It provides strategies to overcome these challenges, ensuring interventions are effective and widely accepted.
The Guidance is based on a thorough inventory of regional needs, collected through questionnaires and direct engagement with ARCADIA’s Model and Fellow regions. This ensures that the recommendations are relevant, actionable, and adaptable to diverse regional contexts.
Key objectives:
Guide the selection and design of locally appropriate NbS and BGI networks.
Support regions in evaluating performance and potential unintended consequences of interventions.
Create integrated data spaces and monitoring systems for tracking progress and enabling large-scale, informed design
Tools and resources:
Overviews of relevant EU projects, initiatives, and good practice examples.
Insights and lessons learned from real-world NbS and BGI implementations.
Typologies and taxonomies to help regions identify suitable solutions.
Operational support services for both Model and Fellow regions
The Guidance encourages the creation of data platforms and monitoring frameworks to assess the effectiveness of interventions, support mutual learning, and enable scaling of successful practices.