Urban EbA

Hosted by the FEBA Urban EbA Working Group at The Nature of Cities festival, this session built on the publication “Climate Justice for People and Nature through Urban EbA: A focus on the Global South” to approaches to identifying and integrating climate justice into adaptation efforts across cities in the Global South. Speakers presented the social principles of ecosystem-based adaptation identified by the report, and discussed how these principles are implemented in their work around the world. The session convened actors across environment, social development, urban planning and more with the shared goal of building more resilient, sustainable, just and livable cities.

Ecosystems can greatly improve the liveability of our increasingly urbanised world. In August 2021, FEBA’s Urban EbA Working Group published the joint technical paper ‘Climate Justice for people and nature through urban Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA): A focus on the Global South’. The paper 1) gathers practical examples of urban EbA interventions around the world; and 2) explores their links with seven EbA Social Principles related to climate justice.

This webinar shared the seven EbA social principles, their relationship to existing FEBA EbA Qualification Criteria and Quality Standards and the IUCN Global Standard on Nature-based Solutions, and demonstrated to practitioners how the principles have been implemented in EbA interventions.