The National Institute of Urban Affairs’ (NIUA) Climate Centre for Cities (NIUA C-Cube), World Resources Institute India (WRI India) and their partners on June 29 launched India’s first national coalition platform for urban nature-based solutions (NbS) at the 11th World Urban Forum in Poland.
India Forum for Nature-based Solutions
- The India Forum for Nature-based Solutions aims to create a collective of NbS entrepreneurs, government entities and like-minded organisations, to help scale urban nature-based solutions.
- ‘India Forum for Nature-based Solutions’ is led by the National Institute of Urban Affairs’ Climate Centre for Cities (NIUA C-Cube) and anchored by World Resources Institute India (WRI Indija) under the Cities4Forests initiative.
World Urban Forum (WUF) 2022
- The World Urban Forum (WUF) was held between 26 to 30th June 2022 in Katowice, Poland.
- The theme of WUF11, Transforming Our Cities for a Better Urban Future, highlights a state of informed preparedness that provides us with the opportunity to anticipate change, correct the course of action if necessary, and become more knowledgeable on the different possibilities that the future of cities offers.
- It also illuminates the ways that policy, strategies and actions can promote desirable futures. The World Urban Forum (WUF) is the premier global conference on sustainable urbanization.
- The WUF was established in 2001 by the United Nations to examine one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanisation and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies.
- The first WUF was held in Nairobi, Kenya in 2002 and has been held around the world ever since.
- WUF11 was co-organized by UN-Habitat, Poland’s Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy and the Municipal Office of Katowice.
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