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NATURE-BASED ENTERPRISES GUIDEBOOK
This guidebook helps to clarify what is a nature-based enterprise, how to find skilled and experienced nature-based enterprises and how to stimulate and support the start-up, financing and growth of nature-based enterprises. The translated versions of the guidebook are available in German, Portuguese and Bosnian.
FINANCE AND BUSINESS MODELS GUIDEBOOK
This guidebook introduces the topic of financing and business models for nature-based solutions, identifies some common challenges and enablers to financing and presents a step-by-step guide to securing financing.
THE NATURE-BASED SOLUTION BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS AND GUIDEBOOK
The Nature-Based Solutions Business Model Canvas is an easy-to-use tool to help you capture in a visual format the business model of your Nature-Based Solution (NBS). This guidebook supports cities in using the NBS Business Model Canvas. Further supports available to cities planning NBS include an introductory Webinar on ‘Financing, Business Models and Governance of NBS’ and an on-site facilitated workshop.
POLICY IMPERATIVES FOR A COMPETITIVE AND RESILIENT NATURE-POSITIVE ECONOMY
Developed under NetworkNature’s NbS Task Force 3: Finance and Business Models (for NbS) in a Nature-Positive Economy and coordinated by the Invest4Nature project, this new publication brings together insights from 45 EU funded research and innovation projects to chart the course towards a competitive and resilient Nature-Positive Economy (NPE).
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