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Capacity-building Hub: From Traditional Gardens to Future Cities. Youth-led Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience
20 Nov. 2025
16:00h - 17:00h
BRT/UTC-3
Belém, Brazil
Brazil
Special event room - Tapajos, Area C
Area C
English
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Capacity-building Hub: From Traditional Gardens to Future Cities. Youth-led Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience
20 Nov. 2025
16:00h - 17:00h
BRT/UTC-3
Belém, Brazil
Brazil
Special event room - Tapajos, Area C
Area C
English

Organizer
UNU-IAS OUIK 

Background

As cities worldwide confront the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, reconnecting urban development with nature and community knowledge is essential. Through the Sustainable Urban Nature (SUN) Project, based in Kanazawa, Japan, UNU-IAS OUIK explores how traditional green spaces, citizen participation, and youth-driven co-creation  can shape new models of urban resilience and decarbonization.
Building on Kanazawa’s long tradition of integrating gardens and green corridors into city life, the project demonstrates how traditional ecological knowledge and participatory design can inform Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) that are inclusive, culturally grounded, and adaptive to climate challenges.

Objectives

  • Show how traditional and community-based green spaces can inspire scalable, people-centred NbS for climate adaptation and urban cooling.NbS for climate resilience.
  • Present youth-led innovations that promote walkable, inclusive and low-carbon cities..
  • Engage the audience in a co-creation exercise to imagine their own “Nature-based Future City”.

 

Agenda  

Time Segment  Speaker & Affiliation
16:00 - 16:03 Opening  Yoko Tomita UNU-IAS
16:03 - 16:13  Merging Traditional Urban Green Spaces with Future City Juan Pastor Ivars UNU-IAS
16:13 - 16:18  Walkable and Cool Cities  Tachibana
16:18 - 16:23 Bamboo for a Sustainable Urban Landscape  Ms. Hira 
16:23 - 16:53  Co-creation exercise with audience to imagine their own "Nature-based Future City" UNU-IAS

Relevant Links 

UNU-IAS OUIK