Accompany and support the development of standard methods and guidance on NbS actions for their operationalisation in business, which is widely recognised as an important lever for R&I to promote the uptake of NbS. This relates generally to developing the practical design and implementation of NbS at an operational level, e.g., on the need for adaptive management and governance, to refer more clearly to ecosystem complexity, temporal scales, effectiveness, and uncertainty. This also includes developing further research on NbS business cases, including economic viability and long-term costs as well as value chains in different sectors, and is tied to the development of elements around the valuation of NbS8 and of standard and practical methods for NbS integration in business models, such as natural capital accounting methods to enable the mainstreaming of NbS private financing.
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