Nov 2025
Nature-based Solutions in the UK
Case studies on overcoming barriers
This report highlights WWF-UK’s learnings from four Nature-based Solution (NbS) projects that were delivered across the UK with support from Aviva, and offers insights into barriers and enablers to scaling up NbS, as well as evidence on NbS effectiveness and impact.
Nature-based Solutions are key to tackling the triple challenge of biodiversity loss, climate change and societal wellbeing. To demonstrate this, four NbS pilot projects across the UK were delivered with the aim of enhancing community resilience to flooding, reducing environmental risks, and engaging local communities and other stakeholders in conservation.
These pilot projects have informed WWF’s long term ambition to demonstrate not only that NbS are cost-effective options for building climate resilience through enhanced ecosystem health, but also that they are economically viable and should be better integrated into financial decision making.