Guidance for Using the IUCN Global Standards for Nature-Based Solutions: A User-Friendly Framework for the Verification, Design, and Scaling Up of Nature-Based Solutions intends to help practitioners by standardizing the design and implementation of nature-based solution, establishing a common basis of what is and is not a nature-based solution and supporting nature-based solutions by clarifying and developing related policy. Project managers, landscape planners, development practitioners, finance sector personnel, policy makers, and others use this guide for the design and verification of nature-based solutions to ensure that they meet the requirements of the nature-based standard.