Nature Positive Cities Efforts to Advance the Transition Durban 2024

This report is interactive Look out for this icon for pages that can be interacted with To ensure interactive capability, please download and open this PDF with Adobe Acrobat.Contents © 2024 World Economic Forum. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system.Disclaimer This document is published by the World Economic Forum as a contribution to a project, insight area or interaction. The findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed herein are a result of a collaborative process facilitated and endorsed by the World Economic Forum but whose results do not necessarily represent the views of the World Economic Forum, nor the entirety of its Members, Partners or other stakeholders. Images: Getty Images, Unsplash, PexelsForeword 03 About the initiative 04 About this paper 05 Executive summary 06 1 City overview 10 1.1 Durban/eThekwini Municipality 11 1.2 Situational context 12 2 Assessment of enabling environment 15 2.1 System enablers 16 2.2 Governance 22 2.3 Policy and regulations 25 2.4 Financing 27 2.5 Data and analytics 29 2.6 Stakeholder engagement 31 2.7 Capabilities 34 3 Exemplary solutions 35 Conclusion 39 Contributors 40 Endnotes 41 Nature Positive: Cities’ Efforts to Advance the Transition 2