World Bank Brief on Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience and Adaptation

A recent World Bank Climate and Development Brief: Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience and Adaptation outlines the opportunities to increase investment in NbS, and highlights that scaling these solutions requires strengthening policies and institutions, closing remaining knowledge gaps, using public and private financing, and keeping a strong focus on the maximization of overall development outcomes.

The World Bank Group Climate and Development Briefs look at key areas of climate action related to climate finance, methane emissions, nature-based solutions and human capital, gender and climate change. The briefs analyse the challenge, what is needed, how the World Bank Group is contributing to solutions and what success looks like. The World Bank Group (WBG) uses its strategic and policy tools such as the new core diagnostic, Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDR), to help countries identify nature-based opportunities that can contribute to addressing their mitigation, adaptation and development needs.

Over the last decade, the World Bank Group has financed over 100 projects that include NbS to build resilience. The Group uses strategic and policy tools such as the core diagnostic, Country Climate and Development Reports to help countries identify nature-based opportunities that can contribute to addressing their mitigation, adaptation and development needs. They will help countries prioritize the most impactful actions that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and boost adaptation, while delivering on broader development goals. Many of the CCDRs that have been completed or are under preparation capture NbS as a key intervention area to strengthen climate, nature and development outcomes

Learn more in the World Bank Climate and Development Brief: Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience and Adaptation