Nature Positive Cities Efforts to Advance the Transition San Francisco 2025

2 Assessment of enabling environmentGovernance arrangements At present, the city has begun to work towards greater interagency collaboration and coordination with the goal of becoming more nature-positive. These steps include: 1 Monthly interagency coor dination meetings among land management agencies and not-for-profits to manage and monitor parks and natural lands 2 Establishing a methodology and baseline measurement of biodiverse green space to measure 30-by-30 progress in alignment with the C40 Urban Nature Accelerator commitment 3 Launching Reimagining San Francisco, a citywide alliance focused on increasing accessible biodiverse greenspace 4 Collaboration among city agencies Recreation and Parks, the Public Utilities Commission, Animal Care and Control, as well as the Presidio Trust and the National Park Service to implement a coexistence programme between people and coyotes (and other wildlife) in San Francisco 18 Challenges identified –Decentralized management of natur e across the city governance levels means many biodiverse areas are neglected and community engagement is lacking. Impr ovement areas –Prioritize and coor dinate delivery of cross-agency solutions and ensure all initiatives are accessible to all stakeholder groups. –T rack community-based organization (CBO) projects and integrate them into nature management processes. 23 Nature Positive: Cities’ Efforts to Advance the Transition