India Forum for

Nature-based Solutions

Towards accelerating nature-based solutions (NbS) across urban India

The India Forum for Nature-based Solutions is India’s first urban NbS consortium that aims to raise awareness and scale up adoption of nature-based solutions across cities in India.

Our

Mission

To harness the power of the collective to mainstream ecosystem services and nature-based solutions for climate resilience in Indian cities.

Awareness

to Action

Defining a shared language and communicating benefits to inform actions at the local level including the scaling up of existing interventions for urban nature-based solutions.

Collaborative

Platform

Driving investment and strengthen delivery mechanisms through multi-stakeholder coordination.

Inform

Projects

Mainstreaming urban ecosystem-based services and nature-based solutions in India through policy, plans and project interventions.

Indian cities needs to adopt, integrate and scale up nature-based solutions as part of their climate mitigation and adaptation efforts to build climate resilience

0/50 of the world’s most air polluted cities are in India
Air pollution impacts health, leads to loss of lives and causes significant economic loss
0% rise in cyclones in the Arabian Sea
Many coastal Indian cities will see an increase in water logging and flooding
0 million people face rising sea levels
6 Indian cities face the risk of severe flooding if no resilience measures are undertaken

Latest News & Blogs

Initiative by

Cities4Forests

Supported by

Caterpillar Foundation
NICFI
UK Government

Core Partners

BMUV GIZ
India Climate Collaborative
NIUA Ccube
The Nature Conservancy
Wetlands International
WRI INDIA
WWF
CEEW-Welcome to the Team