Connecting Nature Deliverable 9: An interim report on progress towards initiation of city-wide nature-based solutions exemplars

This Deliverable briefly summarises progress to date on each of the Connecting Nature Front-runner Cities exemplars, as described by the Front-runner Cities themselves in narrative reports. The figure below illustrates the proposed journey of the Front-runner Cities in scaling up nature-based solutions through the Connecting Nature programme and beyond, as part of a step change in how cities embed NBS to achieve a range of benefits. Within Connecting Nature, the ambition is that the Front-runner Cities are innovating in entrepreneurial, co-creational processes so that the exemplars become a model for how nature-based solutions can be embedded across a city at multiple scales to deliver multiple benefits.