Nature-Based Solution for a City (Port Louis) in Mauritius

Overcoming the challenges of scaling up NbS in urban settings requires identifying options for drawing in private-sector investment despite the negative cash flow and high investment costs in the face of less easily quantifiable benefits. This may require the development of multiple-benefit assessments, i.e., the benefits of urban NbS need to be quantified and qualified spatially and over time to provide a better understanding of the enabling environment needed in their support. Moreover, assessing options for integrating NbS with other mitigation solutions (e.g., energy efficiency for cooling), innovative financing solutions, and other risk transfer and sharing solutions. In addition, regulatory and legal frameworks are often not designed to scale up NbS in urban areas where they may compete with space constraints, demand for financial resources, and other interests.
This project has the following specific objectives:
1)     Analysis of existing experiences on implementation models for NbS in the urban context; 
2)     Synthesis and development of testable models in collaboration with local urban partners for tackling heat, flood, and coastal hazards. 
3)     Experimentation on the ground and creation of off-the-shelf replicable implementation options and 
4)     Capacity building and training of local stakeholders.