NbS-themed events

EGU26

<p>EGU<span style="font-family: 'Raleway', sans-serif;">26</span></p>

When

3 May 2026 - 8 May 2026    
All day
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Where

Vienna
Vienna, Austria, Vienna

Event Type

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are “actions to protect, conserve, restore, sustainably use and manage natural or modified ecosystems, that address socio-economic and environmental challenges, while simultaneously providing human well-being, resilience and biodiversity benefits”. Within the framework of a global ecosystem approach, NbS must encompass ecological, societal, political, economic and cultural issues at all levels, from the individual to the collective, from local to national, from the public or private sphere.As underlined by the IPCC and IPBES, climate change and biodiversity loss are deeply interconnected and must be addressed jointly. This session therefore focuses on how NbS can serve as adaptation strategies to climate change, while simultaneously preserving or restoring biodiversity. Considering various ecosystems (marine and coastal, urban, cropland, mountainous, forest, rivers…), NbS as climate change adaptation solutions includes the adaptation to: sea level rise (flooding and erosion), changes of the water regime (floods, droughts, water quality and availability), rise in temperatures (heat waves, forest fires, drought, energy consumption), plant stress and increase of pests (variation of yields, forest dieback), to minimize their associated social and economic negative impacts.Therefore, this session aims to promote discussion integrating multiple disciplines related to ecosystem restoration, preservation and management, to put forward the complexity that is often hidden by simplifying hypotheses and approaches (sector-based silo approach, homogeneity of environments…).

Specific topics of interest are the followings:

  • Complexity: nature of ecosystems and risk of oversimplification, interconnection between NbS and complementary areas, consideration of uncertainties
  • Scales: spatial scales with the integration of NbS in their environment, and temporal scales considering sustainability over time, variability of bio-physical processes and climate change effects
  • Ecosystem services: bio-geophysical processes, spatial shift between the location of NbS and the beneficiaries one, modification under climate change (tipping point), co-benefits or negative effects
  • Assessment and indicators: measurement and modelling protocols, capacity to measure the complexity, resilience and stability of NbS
  • Co-development with stakeholders, engaging civil society, and integrating NBS into education, aligned with IAHS Helping Decade objectives

This session is part of the EGU General Assembly 2026, which will feature a dedicated focus on Nature-based Solutions. The session is convened, among others, by Daniela Rizzi, Coordinator of NetworkNature, highlighting the relevance of NbS within the broader European research and policy landscape.

Further information about the EGU 2026 programme is available at:
https://www.egu26.eu/.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to contribute to the session by submitting an abstract through the official submission platform:
Submit Abstract.

Important deadline:

The deadline for online abstract submission is 15 January 2026 (13:00 CET).