For the future there are plans to provide innovative technologies (e.g. remote sensing data (satellite and drone imagery) and technologies) as tools for monitoring urban thermal conditions for public administration and for urban planning policies and as tools to assess impacts of the implemented NBS. Some research state funds are available for this purpose and several grant programs lead by CENS GIS and Remote Sensing Department has been implementing since 2020 on developing remote sensing tools for monitoring urban thermal comfort and investigating urban dust load, which are the key issues and guiding tools for further NBS development and successful implementation.
In Georgia an excellent example of the application of the Connecting Nature NBS Framework and Impact Assessment Guidebooks is the case of Kutaisi, the second most important city of Georgia. Capitalising on the ongoing urban land use planning concept and its SEA scoping (commissioned by the city authority), an impact assessment framework was applied to identify and integrate NBS solutions into SEA (approach is described in Kutaisi NBS Impact Assessment Plan). Similar approaches will be replicated to other urban areas as planning opportunities emerge.