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Going beyond market-based mechanisms to finance nature-based solutions and foster sustainable futures

Investments in activities that exploit and destroy biodiversity and its ecosystems currently outweigh investments in restoration and preservation. Subsidies for extractive industries total 1.8 trillion [...] Read more April 5, 2023

Mobilizing funding for equitable transdisciplinary research partnerships

The new Sentinel briefing on Funding equitable transdisciplinary research partnerships for societal impact is now out. NbSI team member Alexandre Chausson was a contributing author on [...] Read more March 1, 2023

Increased success in large carnivore translocations and rewilding

A new study in the journal Biological Conservation, a team of researchers led by the NbSI’s Seth Thomas looked at factors which influence the success of [...] Read more February 16, 2023

Nature-based solutions can play an important role in reducing vulnerabilities to climate change across the rural Global South

Woroniecki et al. 2022 A new paper by the NbSI team and lead by group member Stephen Woroniecki is out now in the journal Climate and [...] Read more January 16, 2023

Biodiversity outcomes of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation: Characterising the evidence base

Key et al., 2022 A recent Frontiers in Environmental Science paper, Biodiversity outcomes of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation: Characterising the evidence base, by the [...] Read more October 12, 2022

Can sustainability certification enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers? The case of Ghanaian cocoa

Thompson et al., 2022 A recent Journal of Land Use Science paper Can sustainability certification enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers? The case of Ghanaian [...] Read more October 4, 2022

The role of Nature-based solutions in supporting social-ecological resilience for climate change adaptation

Turner et al., 2022 A new paper, The role of Nature-based solutions in supporting social-ecological resilience for climate change adaptation, has recently been published in Annual [...] Read more October 3, 2022

Science paper: Harnessing the potential of nature-based solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change

New research by NbSI Director Nathalie Seddon on Harnessing the potential of nature-based solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change, published in Science, summarises [...] Read more June 24, 2022

Ensuring nature-based solutions support both biodiversity and climate change adaptation

New research examines whether nature-based solutions can deliver a win-win for biodiversity and climate change adaptation. Our recent study reviewed the effects of nature-based interventions for [...] Read more November 6, 2021

Nature-based solutions can reduce vulnerability to climate change

Our recent research examines the role of nature-based solutions (NbS) in addressing climate vulnerability in Bangladesh and rural Global South in general, and on ensuring [...] Read more November 6, 2021

NbSI-WWF-RSPB report on Nature-based Solutions in UK Climate Adaptation Policy

Our report, ‘Nature-based solutions in UK climate adaptation policy‘, commissioned by the RSPB and WWF,  summarises evidence on the many ways in which Nature-based solutions [...] Read more September 30, 2021

Investing in nature for development: do nature-based interventions deliver local development outcomes?

Does investing in nature actually deliver development at the local level? In a recent report undertaken in collaboration with IIED we provide insights into the [...] Read more June 15, 2021