Side Event

Co-Designing Infrastructure with Nature and Communities

BELÉM, BRAZIL: This session at the COP30 Resilience Hub will discuss how nature-positive infrastructure can align climate, biodiversity and equity goals.

Time
- America/Belem
Address
Resilience Hub Pavillion (COP30 Blue Zone), Parque da Cidade, Belém, Brazil

This event at the Resilience Hub of the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP30) will explore how co-designed, nature-positive infrastructure can align climate, biodiversity and equity goals. Bringing together engineers, planners, community leaders and ecologists, it will highlight how nature-based solutions (NbS) can reduce costs, protect lives and unlock economic opportunity. 

Drawing on examples such as living shorelines, stormwater management systems and standards-based coastal planning, the session will discuss how to design and deliver a built environment that actively protects, restores and enhances natural systems, while improving resilience and creating measurable benefits for communities and economies. Participants will engage in a fishbowl dialogue, sharing lived experiences, testing approaches and reflecting on how to embed standards, digital tools and community knowledge into resilient infrastructure.

 Participation

This event is open to attendees of COP30.

Please note that participants in UNU events may appear in photography, screen captures, videos and/or audio.

Language

This event will be held in English. 

 Organizers 

The event will be co-organized by UNU, the International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI), Bentley Systems and Mahila Housing Trust. 

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