Outputs
Below is a collection of Nature-based Solutions Initiative outputs from our team or closely related partners. For academic papers solely on Nature-based Solutions see our bibliography.
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From Risk to Resilience: How Scaling Nature-Based Solutions Across Production Landscapes Can Future-Proof Business
March 2026The opportunity is clear: businesses that invest early in high integrity NbS will secure supply, reduce risk, build co-benefits for carbon and economic value, and capture growing market and investor demand for credible nature-positive action.
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The role of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in the UK’s sustainable future
December 2025Report of workshop hosted by the Royal Society and the Nature-based Solutions Initiative focusing on the sustainability of biomass supply.
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Integrated above- and below-ground ecological monitoring for nature-based solutions
May 2025Our study provides practitioners with a framework for selecting optimum metrics for assessing above- and below-ground ecological outcomes of NbS relevant to the location in which they are being implemented
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Harnessing Nature-based Solutions For Economic Recovery
November 2024This policy briefing outlines the key role of nature-based solutions (NbS) in supporting sustainable economic recovery and societal resilience.
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Growing Positive Change – NbS Conference Report
October 2024We are delighted to announce the release of our NbS Conference 2024 Report and Recordings, highlighting critical actions for aligning climate and biodiversity agendas to support social-ecological flourishing.
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Harnessing nature-based solutions for economic recovery: A systematic review
October 2024A systematic review of 66 reviews on the economic impact of nature-based interventions. Nature-based solutions (NbS) involve working with nature to address societal challenges in ways that benefit communities and biodiversity locally. However, their role supporting economic recovery from crises, such as those arising from conflicts or pandemics remains underexplored.
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NbS in Climate Change Policy: Guarding Against Greenwashing at COP28
November 2023In this guide we strongly urge Parties and non-state actors at COP28 to establish strong governance for high-integrity nature-based solutions (in line with the IUCN Global Standard[1]) and ensure that they are not misused to justify inaction on ongoing emissions.
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Contributions of Nature-Based Solutions to Reduce Peoples’ Vulnerabilities to Climate Change across the Rural Global South
November 2023We analyse 85nature-based interventions across the rural Global South, and factors mediating their effectiveness,based on a systematic map of peer-reviewed studies encompassing a wide diversity of ecosystems,climate impacts, and intervention types
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Scaling up Nature-based Solutions in England’s National Climate Change Adaptation Programme
September 2023Conventional engineered options for climate adaptation (such as dams, sea walls or air-conditioning) are often energy-intensive and may have adverse impacts on biodiversity. In contrast, NbS offer multiple additional benefits for people, nature and the economy.
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Developing A UK Seagrass Code
June 2023Seagrass protection and restoration would provide valuable carbon removal and storage, alongside substantial benefits for people and nature, but more needs to be done to encourage this through policy and nature financing.
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Nature-based solutions are critical for putting Brazil on track towards net-zero emissions by 2050
May 2023Most of the world's nations (around 130) have committed to reaching net-zero carbon dioxide or greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, yet robust policies rarely under- pin these ambitions. To investigate whether existing and expected national policies will allow Brazil to meet its net-zero GHG emissions pledge by 2050, we applied a de- tailed regional integrated assessment modelling approach.
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Going beyond market-based mechanisms to finance nature-based solutions and foster sustainable futures
April 2023We draw on recent research on the effectiveness, governance, and practice of NbS to highlight key limitations and pitfalls of a narrow focus on natural capital markets to finance their scaling up.
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Embedding nature recovery in the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
March 2023The evidence presented here shows the importance of providing more accessible nature-rich green spaces that benefits everyone, as a core part of levelling-up and regeneration.
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Nature-based solutions are key for meeting Brazil’s climate goals and supporting the economy
November 2022There is a large mismatch between current climate ambition and climate policy implementation in Brazil, driven by a failure to curb the conversion of carbon rich biodiverse native ecosystems (the single largest source of emissions in the country) mainly for agriculture. N
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The Role of Nature-Based Solutions in Supporting Social-Ecological Resilience for Climate Change Adaptation
September 2022Social-ecological systems underpinning nature-based solutions (NbS) must be resilient to changing conditions if NbS are to contribute to long-term climate change adaptation. We develop a two-part conceptual framework linking social-ecological resilience to adaptation outcomes in NbS.
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Guidelines for successful, sustainable Nature-based Solutions
January 2022Back in 1992, at the United Nations Earth Summit, the three Rio Conventions were established (one on climate change, one on biodiversity, and one on desertification), but while their interdependencies were acknowledged at the time, the policy, practice, and research communities that grew around each convention largely followed independent trajectories. Until now.
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Nature-based Solutions in Bangladesh: Evidence of Effectiveness for Addressing Climate Change and Other Sustainable Development Goals
November 2021Many lower-income countries are highly vulnerable to the impacts of natural disasters and climate change, due to their geographical location and high levels of poverty. In response, they are developing climate action plans that also support their sustainable development goals, but conventional adaptation approaches such as hard flood defenses can be expensive and unsustainable.
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Ensuring Nature-based Solutions support both biodiversity and climate change adaptation
October 2021To better understand the biodiversity outcomes of NbS implemented for climate change adaptation. Although nature-based solutions (NbS) should by definition support biodiversity, not all projects framed as NbS have been shown to achieve this in practice.
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Tackling climate change with nature-based solutions in Bangladesh
October 2021Nature-based solutions are a vital tool for climate change adaptation. Our review found robust evidence that they can provide resilient and effective protection from climate risks while also supporting sustainable development and enhancing biodiversity.
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Reducing people’s vulnerability to climate change in the rural Global South using Nature-based Solutions
October 2021To implement nature-based solutions such as ecosystem restoration. Our research shows that such actions can help reduce people's vulnerability to climate change impacts across a diversity of social and environmental contexts
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Can Nature-Based Solutions Deliver a Win-Win for Biodiversity and Climate Change Adaptation?
October 2021We conducted a systematic review of the outcomes of 109 nature-based interventions for climate change adaptation using 33 indicators of ecosystem health across eight broad categories (e.g. diversity, biomass, ecosystem functioning and population dynamics).
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Investing in Nature for Development
August 2021We need to put the protection and restoration of nature at the heart of the healing and recovery of human society from the ravages of the pandemic
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Nature-based solutions can help cool the planet — if we act now
May 2021Analysis suggests that to limit global temperature rise, we must slash emissions and invest now to protect, manage and restore ecosystems and land for the future.
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Getting the message right on nature-based solutions to climate change
December 2020Here, we discuss the promise and pitfalls of the NbS framing and its current political traction, and we present recommendations on how to get the message right.
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