Climate change and biodiversity loss affect livelihoods, and exacerbate the risks of poverty, forced displacement and conflict. At the same time, biodiversity and ecosystems play a key role in addressing climate change and its impacts. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) play a key role for climate mitigation, adaptation and to address biodiversity loss, and bring additional economic and social benefits, such as health and well-being.
This high-level event aims at raising awareness about the increasing number of initiatives on NbS, and to identify instruments for scaling-up and increasing investment in the design and implementation of NbS.
High-level speakers and panelists will share experiences and discuss opportunities and challenges, obstacles and opportunities, of investing in NbS for climate action as well as other co-benefits.
The event is also the occasion to discuss the role of NbS in the context of the ongoing negotiations on the adoption of a framework on the Global Goal on Adaptation and the completion of the two-year Glasgow-Sharm el Sheikh Work Programme well as in the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework.
The event will explore opportunities for wider collaboration and synergies on NbS between different actors, workstreams, instruments and financial flows to increase resilience of people, businesses, cities and infrastructures, as well as well-being.
