Line of action:

Drivers of biodiversity loss

Status:

Finalizado

Execution date:

2023

End date:

2025

Total budget:

199.780,00€

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

159.824,00€

In Spain, climate change presents important challenges, risks and impacts that require adaptation and mitigation. Nature-based solutions (NBS) are key to addressing these challenges because of their ability to provide multiple ecological, social and economic benefits.

However, there is still no national system for cataloguing the SBNs that takes into account the particularities of the territory and favors decision-making in the implementation of the National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change 2021-2030 (PNACC).

The adoption of a national cataloguing system for SBNs is crucial to ensure proper planning and maximization of their benefits in the fight against climate change.

The overall objective is to establish a system for identifying, classifying and cataloguing Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in Spain, in order to promote consistency in their planning and maximize their effectiveness in meeting the challenges of the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan.

To achieve this, count on these specific goals:

• To analyze the state of the art of SBNs and systematically compile the public and private SBN projects and initiatives implemented and planned in Spain.
• Design an SBN identification and classification system in response to specific and locally variable climate change-related hazards, social vulnerabilities and adaptation needs.
• Promote the transferability and replicability of SBNs within the PNACC framework by identifying and characterizing local social and institutional facilitators (and obstacles) for SBN implementation.
• Validate the SBN identification, classification and cataloguing system by stakeholders and in accordance with the needs of the PNACC.

• Analysis of the state of the art of SBNs and systematic compilation of public and private SBN projects and initiatives implemented and planned in Spain.
• Design of an SBN identification, classification and cataloguing system.
• Characterization and cataloging of the most representative SBNs in the territories as examples of good practices for the deployment of the PNACC.
• Validation of the SBN identification, classification and cataloguing system by the relevant stakeholders and in accordance with the needs of the PNACC following an AGILE methodology, which allows receiving feedback from stakeholders at different key moments of the project.

• It has contributed to identifying, classifying and disseminating the Nature-based Solutions (NBS) aimed at climate change present in Spain.
• An analysis of the state of the art has been carried out based on 218 global scientific publications and information has been collected from 203 actions corresponding to 135 projects in Spain.
• A theoretical-conceptual framework has been developed in line with the PNACC, validated in a first workshop with 21 representatives from different sectors, which has made it possible to incorporate projects in non-urban areas and detect biases towards more humanized territories. As a result, a database and conceptual framework, “living” and reference documents have been developed to inspire new initiatives and guide the integration of NBS into adaptation policies.
• A prototype of an identification and classification system has been designed, complemented by a prioritization methodology to deliver operational results at the local level. With this, and using the database, a prototype of a cataloguing system of NBS implemented in Spain has been developed, from which 16 emblematic projects were selected.
• Key actors from the 16 projects have been interviewed, identifying facilitating factors and barriers to NBS scaling. With this information, a catalogue of institutional and social characteristics considered good practices has been drawn up, together with files on each project.