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Dr Musonda Mumba, Secretary General, Convention on Wetlands This process will continue to build consensus on what constitutes appropriate and effective actions, help promote best practice and put in place frameworks for effective, sustainable, and socially inclusive NbS.Īs we wait for the next steps of high-level action, the UNEP-WCMC and UNEP NbS teams spoke to three leading sector experts about their experience with NbS, the projects that have inspired them, and asked for their views on the key opportunities and challenges for scaling up NbS.

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UNEP is now preparing to launch a series of global and regional consultation sessions, across the public and private sectors, research and civil society, to firm up the global NbS agenda. However, while the theme has moved up the global political agenda, there are still many questions being asked around the role, value and inclusivity of NbS. In October, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and UNEP-WCMC released a policy report collating the key considerations around NbS uptake, and set out recommendations for international, national and local leaders to drive progress.įollowing that report, the succession of major end-of-year summits – from wetlands at COP14, climate at COP27 and biodiversity during COP15 – all underscored the crucial need to scale up action on NbS.

In March, 193 UN member states agreed to a global definition of NbS which clearly links the sustainable and effective use of nature to tackling the world’s myriad sustainable development challenges. Action to conserve, restore and sustainably harness the power of the natural world to help address the climate and nature crises now has an internationally agreed name and rallying term – nature-based solutions (NbS).Ģ022 featured a series of big, interrelated moments for the increasing profile of NbS.

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