This panel discussion focused on the weather, water and climate information needed to support nature-based solutions (NBS) to reduce flood and drought risks and brought together NBS practitioners from the World Bank and elsewhere, policy advisors, meteorologists, and hydrologists to:
- Review the challenges and opportunities of NBS to reduce vulnerability and build resilience to flood and drought risks. How are these practices be applied in development projects?
- Assess the weather and climate data and information requirements, and how to reduce knowledge gaps, needed for NBS introductions to be successful.
- Explore ways to create opportunities to support and enable the uptake of NBS in developing countries.
The outcomes of the roundtable included:
- Guidance on the weather, climate and hydrological global-to-local scale data and information requirements from the global weather enterprise for NBS to support flood and drought risk reduction.
- Guidance on the types of NBS solutions needed to reduce flood and drought risk, in a development context.
- Guidance on policy options for developing countries to encourage NBS investments in flood and drought risk reduction.
