Planning for Sustainable Infrastructure(Session 2): Nature-based-solutions for risk-informed urban development planning and sustainable infrastructure

The need of cities worldwide to adapt to Nature-based Solutions aim to conserve or restore nature, supporting gray infrastructure to reduce disaster risk, improve community and environmental wellbeing. Harmonizing green and grey infrastructure allows for an alternate pathway towards sustainability, which grey infrastructure systems cannot achieve on its own.

The aim of this session is to look at different risks to which cities and their critical infrastructures are exposed to, and guide exchange along different measures e.g. nature based solutions for reducing public and private infrastructures’ vulnerability. By showcasing the different scales and approaches to nature-based solutions for sustainable infrastructure, the session will provide a forum for increased agenda coordination for sustainable development as well as resource efficiency in the implementation of development & cooperation measures.

In its role as a facilitator, mediator and moderator of this dialogue, the Global Initiative on Disaster Risk Management (GIDRM) in collaboration with Connective Cities (CC) will mobilise central actors that are essential stakeholders in the planning processes for sustainable infrastructure in cities to an initial exchange series on implementing Nature-based solutions for urban resilience and Risk-informed urban development.

Agenda of the session