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ENACT: Enhancing Nature-based Solutions for an Accelerated Climate Transformation

Resource type: 
Policy
EU project stamp: 
No

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Main entity: 
Egypt, Germany, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Type of entity: 
IGO
Key themes: 
Agriculture
Business
Cities
Climate change
Climate change adaptation
Climate change mitigation
Disaster risk reduction
Food security
Green infrastructure
Sustainable development
Urban
Water security
Societal challenges: 
All
Scope: 
Global
Description: 

The ENACT Partnership works to accelerate collective global efforts to address climate change, land and ecosystem degradation, and biodiversity loss through high-integrity Nature-based Solutions. 

ENACT: Enhancing Nature-based Solutions for an Accelerated Climate TransformationNbS for climate projects

It does so by providing a hub for Parties and non-state actors working on NbS to collaborate and build support across the Rio Conventions through a collective voice for evidence-based policy on high integrity NbS. The Partnership was launched at the Sharm el-Sheikh UNFCCC COP27 by the Egyptian COP Presidency in collaboration with the Government of Germany and IUCN. IUCN hosts ENACT's secretariat, which leads the implementation of the Partnership.

ENACT's NbS Goals

  • Enhanced protection and resilience of at least 1 billion vulnerable people (including at least 500 million women and girls). 

  • Up to 2.4 billion hectares of healthy natural ecosystems secured through protection of 45 million ha, sustainable management of 2 billion ha, and restoration of 350 million ha. 

  • Significantly increased global mitigation efforts through protecting, conserving, and restoring carbon-rich terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems.

Date: 
2022