Investing in nature and the services it provides is the answer to affordable and sustainable climate mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity conservation, landscape restoration, and livelihood development. Nature–Based Solutions (NBS) use resources and processes already found in nature to restore ecosystems, support communities, and contribute to healthy and resilient economies.
The NBS Invest project aims to increase funding and mainstream Nature–Based Solutions (NBS) into climate mitigation and adaptation projects in the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
The world is experiencing an unprecedented decline in nature and—as with the impacts of climate change—the risks associated with this global loss disproportionately impact the world’s poorest. Many countries are trapped in a cycle where challenges such as high poverty, limited trade, and weak policy frameworks and fragility are exacerbating landscape degradation and reducing climate resilience, which in turn lead to further loss of the ecosystem services which economies and livelihoods rely on. The World Bank estimates that the collapse ecosystem services, such as wild pollination, marine fisheries and forest timber, could cost low–income countries 10% of real GDP in 2030 (The Economic Case for Nature, 2021).
NBS offer a cost-effective approach for tackling these development challenges and aligning the climate change, biodiversity, and green recovery agendas. The approach supports healthy communities and ecosystems by using and restoring natural resources and processes to simultaneously address social, economic, and environmental issues. This includes activities such as increasing mangrove forests to shield coastal communities from storm surges and protect fish breeding grounds, reforesting land to control erosion and prevent flooding, and restoring wetlands to filter water supplies and increase carbon sequestration.
For more information on the project, check out the NBS Invest Brochure
