Nature Positive Cities Efforts to Advance the Transition San Francisco 2025

© 2025 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, UnsplashForeword 03 About the series 04 About this paper 05 Executive summary 06 1 City overview 10 1.1 San Francisco 11 1.2 Situational context 12 2 Assessment of enabling envir onment 15 2.1 System enablers 16 2.2 Gover nance 22 2.3 Policy and r egulations 24 2.4 Financing 25 2.5 Data and analytics 27 2.6 Stakeholder engagement 28 2.7 Capabilities 30 3 Exemplary solutions 31 Conclusion 35 Contributors 36 Endnotes 37This report is interactive Look out for this icon for pages that can be interacted with T o ensure interactive capability, please download and open this PDF with Adobe Acrobat. Nature Positive: Cities’ Efforts to Advance the Transition 2 Contents