Survey on Nature Based Solutions

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Your thoughts on financing nature based solutions (NBS)

The following questions are to understand your experiences with, or perspectives on, financing different types of NBS. If you do not have an answer, please skip the question

Which of the following potential benefits of NBS are valued by stakeholders, in your experience? Please tick all that apply. Please scroll across for full list of stakeholders and scroll down for full list of benefits

Do you know of specific examples demonstrating that stakeholders value these outcomes? If yes, please provide details.Please include name of example, location, important details, and where to find further information about it, if possible

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Which of the following potential benefits of NBS would funders pay for, in your experience?Please tick all that apply. Please scroll across for full list of funders, and scroll down for full list of benefits. For example, central government funding the planting of a new forest as a flood prevention measure, or local citizens crowdfunding a community garden to increase social cohesion and public well-being.

Do you know of specific examples where funders paid for these potential benefits of NBS? If yes, please provide details.Please include name of example, location, important details, and where to find further information about it, if possible

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Which funders are financing NBS, in your experience?Please tick all that apply

Which of the following ways to finance NBS have you seen in practice?Please tick all that apply

Pooling of different government budgets (e.g. environment and public health)

Green finance (e.g. green bonds)

Grant funding and charitable donations

Revenue-generating instruments (e.g. land lease fees, solar panels)

Market-based instruments (e.g. user charges, subsidies, tax rebates)

Public-private partnerships

Revolving funds

Business improvement districts

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Other (please specify at end of survey)

What funding incentives are you aware of to increase NBS and other sustainable initiatives?For example, Hamburg's green roof subsidy

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Measuring impact is important for NBS. What interesting tools or mechanisms have you seen for measuring the value/impact of NBS?

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Is there anything else you would like to tell us/any more examples you would like to share about the financing of NBS?Please also include comments for where you previously answered "Other"

Note on data protection:

This survey covers the collection and processing of the following data:

Personal data (organisation, role, location, email)
Value of NBS
Examples of NBS
Financing of NBS in practice

This information is stored and processed for the following purposes:

Researching and recording the ways of financing NBS
Researching and recording the handling of stakeholders and funders towards the financing of NBS.

The survey will be active for 3 months (until the end of February 2019). The collected information will only be used in relation to the research project and the named purposes. They will be saved for one year after the end of the project in 2023 (until 2024).

The CLEVER Cities project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 innovation action programme under grant agreement no. 776604