Nature Based Solutions

There are currently 384 publications in our bibliography. Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges There is growing awareness that ‘nature-based solutions’ (NbS) can help to protect us from climate change impacts while slowing further warming, supporting biodiversity and securing ecosystem services. However, the potential of NbS to [...] Read more Seddon, N. et al. | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | 2020 Harnessing employment-based social assistance programmes to scale up nature-based climate action As the severity of the triple challenges of global inequality, climate change and biodiversity loss becomes clearer, governments and international development institutions must find effective policy instruments to respond. We examine the potential [...] Read more Norton, A. et al. | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | 2020 National mitigation potential from natural climate solutions in the tropics Better land stewardship is needed to achieve the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal, particularly in the tropics, where greenhouse gas emissions from the destruction of ecosystems are largest, and where the potential for additional [...] Read more Griscom, B. et al. | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | 2020 Bibliography LATEST ANNOUCEMENTS Read all our recent NbSI news and checkout our latest tweets on our news page. Open letter to global leaders: a healthy planet for healthy people News item image The Club of Rome have written an open letter to global leaders, calling for the response to the current global health and financial crises to address the other crises we are facing [...] Read moreApril 2, 2020 Workshop: NbS in Bangladesh’s development policy News item image The International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCAD) in Bangladesh, which is supported by the Nature-based Solutions Initiative, held a workshop with the Bangladesh Planning Commission to discuss the role of nature-based [...] Read moreApril 1, 2020 Briefing Paper: The Role of Land in Achieving Net Zero News item image We co-authored a briefing paper for the Net Zero Network looking at the contribution of nature-based solutions and other aspects of land use to achieving net-zero emissions in the UK. Key points include: [...] Read moreMarch 24, 2020 Carbon Brief tree planting Q&A – NbSI director interviewed News item image We talked to Carbon Brief about tree planting in the UK. If the UK government’s tree-planting targets are achieved, even with optimistic estimates of carbon sequestration they would only provide a small proportion [...] Read moreMarch 19, 2020 Read all NbSI news SIGN-UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER Please enter your email address below to keep up to date with NbS and the initiative. By entering your email address and clicking the 'Sign up' button you agree to our Privacy policy. Your email address FUNDERS The Partner LogoThe Partner LogoThe Partner LogoThe Partner Logo CONTACT Nature-based Solutions Initiative Department of Zoology University of Oxford 11a Mansfield Rd Oxford OX1 3SZ email: nathalie.seddon@zoo.ox.ac.uk tel: +44 (0)1865 774 432 SOCIAL social LINKS Evidence platform Policy platform Team NbS Conference 2021 Privacy policy