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  Grounding nature-based climate solutions in sound biodiversity science

  We have a new paper out now in Nature Climate Change Summary The current narrow focus on afforestation in climate policy runs the risk of compromising long-term carbon storage, human adaptation and efforts to preserve biodiversity. An emphasis on diverse, intact natural ecosystems — as opposed to fast-growing tree plantations — will help nations to […]

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  Is ecosystem-based adaptation effective? Perceptions and lessons learned from 13 project sites

  Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is an increasingly popular strategy for addressing the linked challenges of climate change and poverty in poor countries, where dependence on natural resources for lives and livelihoods is high.

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  Wild Investments: Protected Areas as Natural Capital

  Asia Pacific’s protected areas (PAs) are growing both on land and in the sea, but more investment is needed if the region’s rich biodiversity is to be adequately protected, but more investment is needed.

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  Nature-based Solutions in the NDCs: A synthesis and recommendations for enhancing ambition and action by 2020

  An event slide show given by Prof. Nathalie Seddon

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  Ecosystem-based adaptation: a win–win formula for sustainability in a warming world?

  Many national and international environmental agreements acknowledge that the impoverishment of ecosystems is limiting the world’s capacity to adapt to climate change and that ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) approaches should be harnessed as a priority.

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  Ecosystem-based adaptation: question-based guidance for assessing effectiveness

  This booklet sets out guidance for assessing the effectiveness of an ecosystem-based approach to climate change adaptation. It describes a process, based around asking a detailed set of questions, that can be used by project managers and researchers.

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  How effective are Nature-based Solutions to climate change adaptation

  This breif discusses how nature-based solutions can help people adapt to the effects of change and disasters whilst slowing warming and protecting biodiversity, with many more positive consequences, fewer risks and lower costs than engineering-based approaches.

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  Nature-based solutions: delivering national-level adaptation and global goals

  “Many of the world’s vital natural ecosystems, and the communities reliant on them, are vulnerable to climate change. But there is increasing recognition that ecosystems — if sustainably restored and protected — can also form a strong line of defence against the direct impacts of climate change and support human adaptation over the long term. […]

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  Nature-based solutions: delivering national-level adaptation and global goals

  Policymakers should consider the co-benefits and additional protections against climate change impacts offered by low-cost nature-based solutions (NbS) in comparison to expensive engineered responses.

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  A rallying cry for nature’s role in tackling climate change

  China and New Zealand called on leaders in government and business to endorse nature-based solutions. The Nature-based Solutions for Climate Manifesto aims to attract political momentum, highlight the need for funding, and encourage the integration of nature in all aspects of planning and decision making for sustainable development.

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  Jen M. Lucey

  About Jennifer Lucey is the Deputy Director of the Nature-based Solutions Initiative and a Senior Researcher specializing in biodiversity and sustainable agriculture at the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment (Department of Geography) at the University of Oxford. Her impact-driven research aims to find and refine nature-based solutions for transforming agricultural landscapes to support […]

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  Sustain-Cocoa: Sustainable sourcing policies for biodiversity protection, climate mitigation, and improved livelihoods in the cocoa sector

  The conversion and degradation of tropical forests have multiple negative socio- environmental impacts. Conversely, their restoration, including enhancing tree cover on already cleared farmland, is a powerful nature-based solution to climate mitigation and adaptation, with potentially large biodiversity and rural livelihood co-benefits. A major driver of forest loss and degradation in the tropics is the […]

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  Nature-based solutions for resilient infrastructure systems in Jamaica, Bangladesh and the Maldives

  This project investigates the benefits and costs of NbS in enhancing the resilience of infrastructure systems, including water supplies, renewable energy, transport systems and flood protection. It uses geospatial tools to inform the prioritization of NbS and their deployment where they will yield the greatest benefits for infrastructure resilience, biodiversity, livelihoods and carbon sequestration.

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  Cécile A.J. Girardin

  Interests and expertise My research focuses on the potential for Nature-based Solutions to respond to climate change. I am an expert on the ecosystem functioning and carbon dynamics of tropical forests across the globe, and their response to a rapidly changing climate. I am a scientist and an artist. As an artist, I have produced […]

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  Adam Blanchflower

  Interests and expertise I am a fourth-year Biology (MBiol) student at the University of Oxford, completing my Master’s research under the supervision of Dr Daniel Hending. My project focuses on assessing how forest fragmentation affects nocturnal lemur populations in Sahamalaza-Iles Radama National Park, Madagascar, using passive acoustic monitoring (PAM). This approach offers a novel way […]

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  Understanding the value and limits of NbS to address climate change and other development challenges in the Philippines

  This research provides a country-specific analysis of nature-based solutions (NbS) for addressing societal challenges in the Global South, with a focus on the Philippines. This project examines the potential of NbS to support climate change adaptation, identifying intervention types, outcomes, priorities, and the factors that hinder or enable NbS. A central question guides this work: […]

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  Caleb Samrai

  Interests and expertise I am a fourth-year student studying Biology (MBiol) at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Nathalie Seddon and Dr William Thompson for my Master’s research. My project is an investigation into the environmental and economic trade-offs of coffee agroforestry in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, where I will be working with […]

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  Conserving sharks and rays in the global south

  This project assesses the vulnerability of shark species and sustainability of elasmobranch fishery against contemporary fishing pressures. This information is being integrated into the National Plan of Action for Sharks and rays-Bangladesh as part of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s International Plan of Action for Conservation and Management of Sharks. The research explores the ecological, […]

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  Kathryn Brown

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  Addressing climate vulnerability with nature-based solutions in Bangladesh

  Bangladesh, like many lower income countries, is exceptionally vulnerable to increased climate risks, exacerbated by environmental degradation and socio-economic challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature-based solutions could provide cost-effective options to address these challenges but policymakers lack evidence on their effectiveness. To address this, we produced a comprehensive synthesis of evidence on the effectiveness of […]

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  Zoe Brown

  Interests and expertise I am broadly interested in nature-based solutions in their relevance to climate adaptation, socio-ecological resilience, and food systems, specifically within the context of small island developing states (SIDS).  My doctoral research will focus on understanding the effectiveness of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation in SIDS. Background I was raised in The […]

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  Biodiversity outcomes of nature-based solutions for adaptation in the Tropical Andes

  This project explores the outcomes of Nature-based Solutions for Adaptation upon biodiversity in the Tropical Andean region of South America.

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  Rachel Cavanagh

  Interests and expertise Information coming soon. Background Information coming soon.

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  Synergies and trade-offs between net zero policies and biodiversity conservation in Brazil

  This project develops and deploys economic landuse modelling to understand the synergies and trade-offs between net zero policies and biodiversity conservation, including the role of nature-based solutions, in climate mitigation efforts, with a particular focus on Brazil. The project also seeks to understand the impacts on ecosystems of different trade policies and supply chain agreements.

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  Investigating the biodiversity, social and sustainable development outcomes of achieving net-zero in the UK

  This project explores the climatic, environmental and wider consequences of greenhouse gas removal (GGR) methods. GGR is expected to form an integral part in achieving a climatically sustainable future, and features prominently (sometimes at enormous scale) in domestic and international pathways that successfully reach ‘net-zero’ emissions. The diversity of different practices and relative lack of […]