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On the occasion of World Cities Day 2020, the World Bank and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have launched the Sustainable Urban Development and Resilience thematic community on the PANORAMA platform.

Sharing practices of linking nature and culture for conservation. The World Heritage Leadership Programme has launched the Nature-Culture thematic community on the PANORAMA platform, coordinated jointly by ICCROM, IUCN and ICOMOS.

As a multi-actor partnership, PANORAMA operates under SDG 17 (Partnerships for the goals) and disseminates knowledge and best practices by publishing successful solutions. In addition, the more than 600 solutions currently available on the website, deal with the achievement of numerous other SDGs.

This booklet brings into focus Nature-based Solutions which involve coastal and marine habitats. These ecosystems – colossally rich in biodiversity, and immensely important as carbon stocks and providers of
multiple environmental services – are heavily impacted by the climate
emergency. At the same time, they offer myriad possibilities to combat
this crisis. Countries could learn from the well-designed NbS examples that can help them to structure their NDC commitments. 

Despite occupying just 2 to 3% of the world’s land surface, cities are home to over half of humanity, accounting for approximately 75% of natural resource consumption and 70% of CO2 emissions. Cities are uniquely placed to drive transformative change. The World Bank and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have launched the Sustainable Urban Development and Resilience Thematic Community aiming at showcasing pragmatic solutions to pressing urban challenges.

A Nature-Culture manual is provided for those interested in engaging with PANORAMA through the Nature-Culture Thematic Community. It provides guidance on how to elaborate Nature-Culture solutions focused on people-centered approaches and place-based management.
The manual also covers technical information on how to join and use the platform building on the existing PANORAMA Manual. The Nature-Culture Thematic Community launched in October 2020 and it showcases 240+ solutions.

Blue Solutions has organised a series of online events with the Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) community, which gathered more than 60 practitioners around the globe. The first event presented the solutioning approach and the Panorama platform while second served as a write-shop to draft new solutions based on the participants’ experiences. The third workshop celebrated the finalising of the MSP solutions. The first MSP solution has been published in the platform: Establishing the basis for Marine Spatial Planning in the Azores through a participatory process.

Conservationists have long warned about the connection between the health of people and that of nature. HIV, the Spanish flu and Ebola were among the most frightening words in the list of zoonoses for a while, until COVID-19 unfortunately took over this year. Corona has brought attention to the threats that we incur if we do not keep our ecosystems healthy. It has also cast light on the critical role of protected areas in keeping people and nature in a harmonious and balanced relationship. Through the challenging year of 2020, PANORAMA has continued to promote numerous solutions carried out by protected area managers around the world.

Here are three inspiring solutions that show how a diversity of mechanisms, partnerships and practices can sustainably combine human well-being with ecological conservation: Brazil, Kenya and China.

The EbA Thematic Community already contains more than 140 case examples from around the globe. Next year, we want to continue building on this by adding solutions within themes that are less represented. We identified the following themes as having particularly few examples in our community: EbA and private sector engagement, EbA in the NDCs and NAPs, EbA and gender, M&E for EbA, financing EbA and EbA in agriculture. If you have solutions to contribute to any of these topics, please reach out to us!

Further information: Contact Luise Katarina

As part of the 3rd  Global Conference, One Planet Network Sustainable Food Systems Programme (SFSP), Rare and IFOAM co-hosted a virtual side-event under the title “Behavior Change at Scale: Community-led solutions for farmer livelihoods, food security and nature“. The session invited speakers from the UN Convention on Biodiversity and the UN FAO to sit at a (virtual) table with two local biodiversity champions from Ethiopia and Ecuador. Together, they discussed local solutions to farming and biodiversity related challenges in the context of the upcoming post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

Our thematic community demonstrates the important role that civil society has in influencing business practices to safeguard biodiversity and the many creative ways in doing so. NGO A Rocha Ghana helped develop a shea value chain with a community and a business to fund conservation projects in the landscape. Other Panorama solutions are highlighted in the IUCN Top business engagement tips for conservation organisations released in three languages. A webinar on 10 December has focused on creating multi-stakeholder partnerships with business and highlighted two Solutions.

"In a world where the challenges of sustainable management and conservation of the environment are becoming increasingly important, being able to participate as an expert reviewer for the PANORAMA Solutions platform is a way to contribute a grain of sand towards a better future for all generations."

-          Diego Sberna, Director, Museo Arqueológico "Pío Pablo Díaz" de Cachi, Argentina



“ Working with PANORAMA for the past years has opened up for me a whole universe of inspiring ideas that have been put to practice and have contributed to people’s and nature’s wellbeing all over the world. It has been a great pleasure to be part of the process and I sincerely hope that many of these solutions will be adapted and implemented elsewhere.”

-          Volker Koch, Policy Advisor, GIZ, Germany