Nature-Based Solutions Connecting Science and Practice Workshop

Date: WEDNESDAY, 25 JUNE 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Venue: ROOM 13

Convenors: Ellis Penning, Catherine Wilson and Gary Lei

This special session is a workshop where we connect science and practice to discuss how to make a Nature based Solution scheme successful. The workshop will focus on behind-the-scenes aspects of NbS schemes and include aspects of financing, governance, internal processes as well as the stages that led to the co-design of the scheme and draw from real NbS schemes examples such as Bishan Park (Singapore), Severn Valley and/or Project Groundwater (UK) schemes. This workshop will involve audience participation; we will discuss the importance of stakeholder involvement, stages leading to implementation, what type of efforts are needed to really make it happen and what kind of practical lessons learnt can be shared.