Nature is in freefall. Climate is changing due to humanity’s addiction to burning fossil fuels and converting natural ecosystems for agriculture. This affects in degrading once-productive lands and driving plant and animal species to extinction. And it’s no coincidence that millions of people each year are killed by the direct consequences of poverty, lack of clean water or adequate nutrition, extreme weather and exposure to new virulent pests and diseases.
We now have a better understanding of the power of nature and how to unleash its potential through an extremely important concept: nature-based solutions.
Protecting, restoring and enhancing natural ecosystems holds the potential to help tackle many of the challenges facing our planet - from climate change and nature loss to food insecurity - and to increase resilience to future risks. But these solutions need our support to overcome the structural barriers holding them back.
