Presentation - Workshop on Scaling-up the implementation of nature-based solutions for climate - Roy Brooke, Canada

1. Moving nature-based solutions from
principle to replicable practice:
Natural Assets Management
Presented by Municipal Natural Assets Initiative | May 2022

2. Natural asset management
Subset of nature-based
solutions.
Scaleable approach for
recognizing that nature is:
▪ One of our most vital assets
▪ Central to any resilient
infrastructure system

3. Case for natural assets
Deliver core services
Can be managed
Often over-used,
under-recognized

4. Drivers in Canada and beyond
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
(FCM):
1/3 of Canadian infrastructure in very
poor to
fair condition.
164.3 billion litres of raw sewage
overflows from combined sewers;
systems are not handling downpours
effectively.

5. Replicable platform
Asset management:
a valuable tool
for managing
natural assets
Asset management integrates:
People’s skills, expertise,
activities
+
information about
community’s physical
assets and finances
=
informed decisions to support
Sustainable Service Delivery.
Source: Asset Management BC

6. Growing number

7. Enabling environment / economic
subsector
Upcoming/ongoing opportunities:
▪ Public Sector Accounting
(ongoing)
▪ Engineering sector in B.C. &
beyond and other professional
disciplines (complete)
▪ National standards for asset
management cycle (underway)
▪ Capital markets financing
(research starting)

8. Questions
RoyB@MNAI.ca
MNAI.ca

9. Examples