At a critical moment when the world is jointly confronting climate change, biodiversity loss, and broader sustainability challenges, the second International Conference on Nature-based Solutions aims to bring together leading scientists from multiple disciplines, policymakers, practitioners, businesses, and community representatives from around the globe to explore and advance actionable pathways for Nature-based Solutions (NbS). The conference seeks to strengthen climate solutions grounded in NbS through interdisciplinary dialogue:enhancing climate resilience by protecting and restoring forests and wetlands, planning green infrastructure to address urban flooding and improve human well-being, and promoting the ‘doughnut economy’ and embedded sustainability frameworks to achieve tiered synergies across ecological, social, and economic dimensions.

We firmly believe that advancing Nature-based Solutions is not only about placing nature at the center of decision-making, but also about identifying pathways that simultaneously deliver ecological benefits, social co-benefits, and economic value. The conference explores how NbS can be operationalised as integrated pathways to deliver climate mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity recovery, and nature-positive economic transformation. Through this convening, we aim to build international consensus, share cutting-edge knowledge and successful practices, and catalyze more ambitious collaborative commitments and action agendas, thereby laying a solid foundation for a resilient future in which people and nature coexist in harmony.

The conference will also include site visits to Nature-based Solutions projects in Beijing. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in in-depth discussions on how NbS can be integrated into infrastructure development and renewal, addressing challenges that conventional approaches have struggled to resolve.