INTERACT-Bio is a four-year project designed to improve the use and management of natural resources in rapidly growing cities and the regions surrounding them. The initiative aims to provide expanding urban populations with nature-based solutions and demonstrate their long-term benefits.

The project will allow governments at different levels – from local to national – to join efforts to integrate biodiversity and ecosystem services into fundamental subnational government responsibilities, such as territorial planning, land use management, local economic development, and infrastructure projects.

The initiative will support metropolitan regions in understanding the potential of nature, particularly in relation to providing essential services for the daily life of cities, while simultaneously improving the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems, generating new or better economic opportunities.