Recording: Update and New Directions – The Department of the Interior Nature-based Solutions Roadmap
Wednesday, May 21 at 1pm ET
via Zoom
Abstract:
Over the past two years, we have collaborated with the DOI Nature-based Solutions (NBS) Working Group to develop the DOI NBS Roadmap – a comprehensive resource designed to help integrate NBS throughout DOI’s work (but also relevant to a broad audience interested in NBS). The Roadmap brings together information on various NBS strategies, hundreds of case studies, and key considerations for the NBS project lifecycle. Initially released as a PDF in 2023, the Roadmap was re-launched as an interactive website in December 2024. In this session, we’ll share updates on the Roadmap’s development, including new components in progress, such as a tools and resources assessment to help users find relevant materials for NBS project planning, design, implementation, monitoring, and benefits assessment. Additionally, we are developing a metrics framework to enhance DOI’s ability to communicate the benefits of their NBS projects for people and communities as well as the environment.
Speakers:
Katie Warnell
Katie Warnell is a senior policy associate at the Nicholas Institute. She enhances natural resource management to benefit both nature and people by ensuring decision-makers have access to relevant and timely data. Recent and ongoing projects include natural capital accounting, quantifying carbon benefits of natural climate solutions, and evaluating and developing metrics for socioeconomic outcomes of restoration projects.
Sara Mason
Sara Mason is a senior policy associate at the Nicholas Institute. Her work centers on the interdisciplinary nature of natural resource management, with projects focusing on incorporating ecosystem services into natural resource management decisions, nature-based solutions policy and finance, environmental markets, climate resilience policy, and sustainable infrastructure.
Lydia Olander
Lydia Olander is a program director at the Nicholas Institute and adjunct professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment. She works on improving evidence-based policy and accelerating implementation of climate resilience, nature-based solutions, natural capital accounting, and environmental markets.
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