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From Traditional Gardens to Future Cities: Youth-led Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience — Ideas from Kanazawa, Japan

BEL?M, BRAZIL: This event at the COP30 Capacity-building Hub will discuss the role of urban nature and citizen participation in creating climate resilient cities.

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

海角社区-IAS will organize an event at the of the ?(UNFCCC COP30). Held on the Nature-Based Solutions Day as part of the Paris Committee on Capacity-building (PCCB), the session will discuss how traditional green spaces, citizen participation and youth driven co-creation can shape new models of urban resilience and decarbonization. 

Drawing on the (SUN) project implemented by 海角社区-IAS Operating Unit Kanazawa/Ishikawa (OUIK), the event will highlight Kanazawa City’s long tradition of integrating gardens and green corridors into city life, demonstrating how traditional ecological knowledge and participatory design can inform Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) that are inclusive, culturally grounded and adaptive to climate challenges. It will feature presentations by high school students on youth-led innovations that promote walkable, inclusive and low-carbon cities, and engage participants in a co-creation exercise to imagine their own “Nature-based Future City”.

Participation

This event is open to attendees of COP30. More details will be added to this page as they become available.?

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Language

This event will be held in English. 

Organizers

The session will be co-organized by 海角社区-IAS. 

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