The ability of mangroves to provide food, shelter and livelihoods, while harbouring incredible biodiversity, building coastal resilience, and acting as immense carbon sinks, make mangrove protection and restoration an effective Nature-based Solution to have in our arsenal to combat climate…
The Indo-Burma Wetland Outlook (IBWO) is the first synthesis of the status and trends for wetlands across the five countries of the region and can act as a baseline for future assessments.
Loss and damage refers to the current and unavoidable impacts of climate change experienced by millions of people across the globe. Ecosystem loss and degradation, exacerbated by climate change, is a major component of loss and damage. The Friends of EbA and the Partnership for Environment and…
Nature-based Solutions for adaptation - consisting of a wide range of ecosystem management activities, such as the sustainable management of forests, grasslands, and wetlands, that increase the resilience and reduce the vulnerability of people and the environment to climate change - offer a…
Ocean threats: acidification, deoxygenation, warming, heatwaves. Do we have anything useful to bend, change, or reverse the results? This brochure, conceived to advocate and educate at the UNFCCC COP27 meetings, summarises these threats and how various solutions (explained within) can actually…
In transboundary mountain ecosystems across Nepal, Bhutan, Peru, Colombia, Kenya, and Uganda, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ and partners have worked from 2017 - 2022 to implement ecosystem-based adaptation approaches to increase climate resilience and reduce vulnerabilities of local communities and the ecosystems they…
At COP27 in Sharm el-Sheik, heads of state and senior government officials from the Western Indian Ocean region and representatives of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥, the African Union, the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the World Economic Forum discussed progress made on the Great Blue Wall and pledged their…
This COP27 side event will showcase Rwanda’s achievements in using Nature-based Solutions for climate resilience. It will provide an opportunity for different partners, including the private sector, NGOs and CSOs, to understand how far Rwanda is in implementing the best practices for Nature-…
As part of the formal Biodiversity Day proceedings, this session, co-organized by the COP27 Presidency and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥, will highlight the importance of local action from communities and societies across the world to develop and implement Nature-based Solutions to address climate change and sustain…
This session will inform key messages for upcoming WHO-Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ guidance to catalyze health leadership for Nature-based Solutions, laying out concrete actions that COP attendees can take to mitigate and adapt to climate change, safeguard nature and ecosystem health as a means to improving health…