Simona Collarini, Director of Urban Planning Head Office, Municipality of Milan
For a long time it was thought that innovation, economic growth and increased employment could not be pursued while also managing to face the environmental challenges of our time. Yet it is essential to use natural resources in a sustainable way in the long term and the interest, including the European Union, for Nature Based Solutions (NBS) goes in this direction.
The European Commission defines NBS as “Nature-inspired and nature-supported, cost-effective solutions that simultaneously provide environmental, social, and economic benefits and help build resilience. Such solutions bring increasingly diverse nature,…