At the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), the Federal Environment Ministry of Germany (BMU) announced it will provide an additional €10m to the Global EbA Fund, a pioneering funding mechanism implemented by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the UN Environm
Decision-makers around the world are increasingly interested in using ecosystem solutions such as mangroves, coral reefs, sand dunes and forests on steep slopes to help buffer the impacts from hazard events and protect populations.
The Global EbA Fund is a quickly deployable mechanism for supporting innovative approaches to Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) to climate change. The Fund is structured to support catalytic initiatives to help to overcome identified barriers to upscaling EbA.
Nature‐based solutions can play a key role in helping to tackle the climate and nature crises, while delivering other benefits for people, according to a new paper today from the Nature-based Solutions Initiative (NbSI) at the University of Oxford—but it is vital to get the message right about ho
On the 5th anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement, Nature Based Solutions are emerging as essential climate mitigation and adaptation strategies. In 2015, the biodiversity agenda and the climate agenda were seen as two separate tracks. It is now widely believed that prote
The BMU-IKI funded and GIZ implemented Global Project Mainstreaming EbA and the South African GIZ Climate Support Programme, together with the Philippine EbA Community are delighted to invite you
Many nature-based solutions (NBS) can be used to solve urban challenges and each one offers different co-benefits and can be used in different contexts.
Village leaders from Faleaseela, Lefaga, Siufaga and Falelatai have united to share their experiences and knowledge on ecosystem-based solutions to combat climate change.
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP) via its Pacific Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Climate Change Project (PEBACC) handed over the reins for climate change adaptation activities in Port Vila and peri-urban Port Vila to the Government on the 28th of September 20
The Friends of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (FEBA) Urban EbA Working Group has developed this survey to identify practical examples of Urban EbA planning and implementation.