Sink or swim: Forest Declaration Platform report on the role of IPLCs for NDCs

A recent Forest Declaration Platform briefing paper, ‘Sink or swim: How Indigenous and community lands can make or break nationally determined contributions‘, has been released [...] Read more May 10, 2022

New UNCCD report on global land degradation and drought

The second edition of the Global Land Outlook report, GLO2: Land Restoration for Recovery and Resilience, has found that the world’s land area is now [...] Read more May 5, 2022

Professor Nathalie Seddon appointed to CCC’s Adaptation Committee

NbSI Director Professor Nathalie Seddon has been appointed to the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) Adaptation Committee, by the UK Government and Governments in Scotland, Wales [...] Read more April 29, 2022

United Nations Environment Assembly agrees Nature-based Solutions definition

The Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) has made a resolution on adopting a multilaterally agreed definition of nature-based solutions (NbS); recognising [...] Read more March 3, 2022

Revised climate pledges show enhanced ambition for nature-based solutions

A total of 122 new NDCs were submitted last year, representing 148 signatories to the Paris Agreement. Our analysis of these new NDCs reveal enhanced [...] Read more February 22, 2022

New UNEP Frontiers Report on emerging environmental issues

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Frontiers’ report examines the current emerging issues of environmental concern. The 2022 edition, Noise, Blazes and Mismatches?, looks at three [...] Read more February 21, 2022

Creating a Nature-Positive Future – UNDP report

A report from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Creating a Nature-Positive Future, presents a path to enhance protected and conserved area coverage and quality [...] Read more February 17, 2022

Nature-based solutions: rhetoric or reality? House of Commons report

A new House of Commons Science and Technology Committee publication – Nature-based solutions: rhetoric or reality? outlines the potential contribution of nature-based solutions to net [...] Read more January 30, 2022

Highlighting best-practice for integration of NbS into revised NDCs

The NbSI team are in the process of updating our Nature-based Solutions (NbS) Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) Policy Platform. The platform makes information about climate [...] Read more October 28, 2021

NbS Guidelines highlighted in House of Lords S&T committee letter to COP26 President

The House of Lords Science and Technological Committee, chaired by Lord Patel, has written to RH Alok Sharma in his capacity as President for COP26 [...] Read more October 16, 2021

New Oxfam report warns of reforestation risks for cropland in low-income countries

A new briefing paper by Oxfam, Tightening the Net: Net zero climate targets – implications for land and food equity, has warned that current net [...] Read more August 3, 2021

Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) launched

On June 4th 2021, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) formally launched. The taskforce aims to provide financial institutions and corporations with guidance on [...] Read more July 20, 2021