This report provides a consolidated assessment of Tonga’s national policies, plans, and legislation through a Nature-based Solutions (NbS) lens. It evaluates the extent to which ecosystems, biodiversity, and nature-driven approaches are embedded into national frameworks for climate resilience and sustainable development.
The objective of this document is to produce practical, context-specific guidance that draws on global and regional best practices, while offering actionable recommendations tailored to Vanuatu’s ecological, institutional, and cultural realities. This forms part of Vanuatu’s broader effort to develop its first National Adaptation Plan (NAP), with a specific focus on integrating Nature-based Solutions (NbS) into the planning process.
This project report is a review of Vanuatu Forestry and Coastal Protection Policy Framework. Vanuatu requires an integrated Forestry and coastal Protection Policy Framework now due to combined impacts from anthropogenic pressures include climate change threatening the ability to coastal ecosystems to protect communities from habitat degradation, development, pollution, overexploitation triggering losses in habitat coverage across numerous coastal ecosystems.
This report examines the extent to which Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are currently reflected, enabled, and operationalised within Fiji’s policy, legal, and institutional frameworks governing the forestry and coastal protection and restoration sectors. Its purpose is to assess alignment with internationally recognised NbS principles, identify systemic gaps and barriers, and provide an evidence based pathway for strengthening NbS integration across national development, climate, biodiversity, and resource-governance systems.
This briefing paper provides a short synthesis of key findings and strategic priorities from the National Policy Framework Assessment Report on Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) in Tonga. The analysis focuses on forestry and coastal resilience sectors, with cross-sectoral linkages to national development, climate, and biodiversity frameworks.
Marine ecosystems remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and regulate climate, yet their contribution remains weakly represented in national wealth accounts. Here we develop a global valuation framework for blue carbon wealth that combines spatial data on coastal ecosystems, including mangroves, seagrasses and salt marshes, with country-level estimates of open-ocean biological carbon transport. We value annual removal flows using country-level social cost of carbon estimates.
This briefing paper provides a short synthesis of key findings and strategic priorities from the National Policy Framework Assessment Report on Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) in Tonga. The analysis focuses on forestry and coastal resilience sectors, with cross-sectoral linkages to national development, climate, and biodiversity frameworks.
Coral reefs are the frontline sentinels of planetary change, revealing the consequences of a warming world before they fully unfold. Today, they are among the most threatened ecosystems on Earth due to climate change and other environmental insults such as overfishing, pollution, and coastal development.
Tropical forests sustain a disproportionate share of global biodiversity and of nature’s contributions to people, yet they are increasingly destabilized by interacting pressures from climate change, land-use change and intensifying disturbance regimes. Understanding and monitoring forest resilience — the capacity to resist, absorb, recover from and adapt to disturbance — requires scalable approaches that integrate biodiversity, ecosystem structure and function across space and time.
This framework is designed to serve as a blueprintfor safeguarding Palau’s coral reefs as they face an escalating climate crisis. While Palauan reefs haveh istorically demonstrated resilience (see glossary of terms for definitions) to climate change impacts, projections indicate that by 2030, extreme marine heatwaves may start occurring more frequently and severely, which will likely disrupt natural recovery processes 16,17.
