Supporting the development of skills for the planning, implementation, long term stewardship, monitoring and assessment of impacts and adaptive management of NbS, with a recognised need for further transfer of technical knowledge on NbS, for example, in assessing trade-offs and synergies and optimising the use of technical solutions, and also related to issues in access to information and evidence, e.g. issues in communicating thermal tolerance data to local stakeholders in a meaningful way or difficulties in accessing information on legal instruments and requirements for NbS implementation. The overload with existing information and potential indicators also appears to be significantly hindering stakeholder capacities for NbS implementation, suggesting a potential for R&I in further accompanying stakeholders in doing so.
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