Line of action:

Drivers of biodiversity loss

Status:

En ejecución

Execution date:

2023

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.