About Nature-based Solutions for climate
The Paris Climate Agreement commits to keep global warming below 2掳C and to pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5掳C. The actions of the international community between now and 2030 will determine whether we can collectively slow warming enough to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Above the 1.5 掳C limit, the risks of extreme weather and collapsing ecosystems grow. The latest IPCC report demonstrated that nature-based solutions such as reducing the destruction of forests and other ecosystems, restoring them, and improving the management of working lands, such as farms 鈥 are among the top five most effective strategies for mitigating carbon emissions by 2030.
Nature-based Solutions for both mitigation and adaptation serve as an integral piece of the required global response for climate action.
Nature-based solutions can address climate change in three ways:
- Decrease greenhouse gas emissions related to deforestation and land use
- Capture and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
- Enhance resilience of ecosystems, and as such support聽societies to adapt to climate hazards such as flooding, sea-level rise, and more frequent and intense droughts, floods, heatwaves, and wildfires.
