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    nature-based solutions
    Climate
    Insights
    December 4, 2023

    What Exactly Are "Nature-based Solutions”?

    • nature-based solutions
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • biodiversity
    • natural infrastructure
    A woman reaches up to tend to a tree she's planted.
    • nature-based solutions
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • biodiversity
    • natural infrastructure
    Business
    Update
    October 11, 2023

    Innovation Pillar: From Financing Climate Startups to Investing in Sustainable Infrastructure

    • nature-based solutions
    Cars in Indian city.
    • nature-based solutions
    Business
    Latin America
    Update
    October 4, 2023

    Community Lessons for Successful Nature-Based Solutions Implementation

    • nature-based solutions
    • Finance
    Sisal in Yucatán.
    • nature-based solutions
    • Finance
    Ocean
    Insights
    September 20, 2023

    The Ocean Can Play a Bigger Role in Fighting Climate Change than Previously Thought

    • Ocean
    • Climate
    • National Climate Action
    • nature-based solutions
    Groups of people are scattered across a large, sandy beach on a sunny day with floating wind turbines in the background.
    • Ocean
    • Climate
    • National Climate Action
    • nature-based solutions
    Cities
    Insights
    August 10, 2023

    As the Earth Gets Hotter, Can Our Cities Get Cooler?

    • Cities
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • nature-based solutions
    A line of tourists await the use of the fountain at the base of Rome’s Spanish Steps to cool off.
    • Cities
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • nature-based solutions
    Food
    Insights
    July 20, 2023

    How to Manage the Global Land Squeeze? Produce, Protect, Reduce, Restore

    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    • land use
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • nature-based solutions
    • conservation
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
    An aerial view of a section of rain forest cleared for agriculture.
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    • land use
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • nature-based solutions
    • conservation
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
    Cities
    Update
    July 5, 2023

    New Data Dashboard Helps Cities Build Urban Resilience in a Changing Climate

    • Cities
    • nature-based solutions
    • climate policy
    • Air Quality
    • GHG emissions
    • biodiversity
    • land use
    • Urban Development
    Aerial view of skyscrapers and urban development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
    • Cities
    • nature-based solutions
    • climate policy
    • Air Quality
    • GHG emissions
    • biodiversity
    • land use
    • Urban Development
    Ocean
    Insights
    June 28, 2023

    How Blue Carbon Can Tackle the Climate, Biodiversity and Development Crises

    • Ocean
    • climate change
    • carbon removal
    • nature-based solutions
    Underwater shot of a mangrove root system in clear tropical waters.
    • Ocean
    • climate change
    • carbon removal
    • nature-based solutions
    Forests
    Outcomes
    June 2, 2023

    Kochi, India Adopts Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience

    • Top Outcome: 2022
    • nature-based solutions
    • Climate Resilience
    Planting trees in Kochi, India
    • Top Outcome: 2022
    • nature-based solutions
    • Climate Resilience
    Forests
    Insights
    April 14, 2023

    Restoring Degraded Forests Could Bring Back Lost Rainfall, Cooler Temperatures

    • Forests
    • restoration
    • nature-based solutions
    • deforestation
    • Freshwater
    • Climate
    Men planting a tree.
    • Forests
    • restoration
    • nature-based solutions
    • deforestation
    • Freshwater
    • Climate
    Business
    Update
    February 23, 2023

    Pathways to Unblocking Private Financing for Nature-based Solutions

    • Business
    • nature-based solutions
    Dry pasture in Oaxaca, Mexico
    • Business
    • nature-based solutions
    Cities
    Insights
    February 15, 2023

    5 Priorities for Urban Climate Action in 2023 and Beyond

    • transportation
    • electric mobility
    • Freshwater
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • nature-based solutions
    • poverty
    • human rights
    A new electric bus in New Delhi, India
    • transportation
    • electric mobility
    • Freshwater
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • nature-based solutions
    • poverty
    • human rights
    Freshwater
    Research
    November 29, 2022

    Better Forests, Better Cities

    Cityscape behind lush forest.
    Business
    Update
    November 2, 2022

    5 Barriers That Hinder Green Financing

    • Business
    • nature-based solutions
    The sunset over a water ecosystem in Mexico
    • Business
    • nature-based solutions
    Climate
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    COP26 Advances Ambitious Climate Action and Nature-based Solutions

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • International Climate Action
    • nature-based solutions
    Scotland, Glasgow, Clydebank, Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre aka SECC
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • International Climate Action
    • nature-based solutions

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