This report provides an easy-to-use framework for assessing nature-based solutions (NbS) for adaptation projects based on internationally recognized principles and standards. It aims to help practitioners and policy-makers assess whether their project follows good practices for gender-responsive, socially inclusive, and conflict-sensitive approaches to NbS for adaptation interventions.
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- Pages
- 15
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- Canada
- Rights
- IISD, 2024
Table of Contents
- Guiding questions for practitioners 1
- What Are NbS for Adaptation 2
- Existing Frameworks and Approaches 3
- IUCNs Global Standard for NbS 3
- CBDs Voluntary Guidelines for the Design and Effective Implementation of Ecosystem-based Approaches for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction 3
- Figure 1. 3
- Nature-Based Solutions for Adaptation 3
- Friends of EbA FEBA networks Making Ecosystem-based Adaptation EffectiveA Framework for Defining Qualification Criteria and Quality Standards EbA Qualification Criteria 4
- NbS for adaptation should provide adaptation benefits 4
- NbS for adaptation should generate biodiversity co-benefits 4
- A gender-responsive and socially inclusive approach to NbS for adaptation should be used 4
- Guiding Questions for Assessing the Effectiveness Inclusivity and Sustainability of an NbS for Adaptation Project 5
- Conclusion 13
- References 13
- Mainstreaming gender equality and social inclusion in nature- based solutions for climate change adaptation 13
- Connecting biodiversity and climate change mitigation and adaptation Report of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change 13
- Decision adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity XIII4. 13
- Decision adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity 145. 13
- Voluntary guidelines for the design and effective implementation of ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and supplementary information 13
- Toolkit for a gender-responsive process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans NAPs. 13
- Toward gender-responsive ecosystem-based adaptation Why its needed and how to get there 13
- EbA criteria. 13
- Conflict-sensitive conservation Practitioners manual. 13
- Defining nature-based solutions 14
- IUCN global standard for nature-based solutions 14
- Enhancing biodiversity co-benefits from nature-based solutions. 14
- Resolution adopted by the United Nations Environment Assembly on 2 March 2022 55. 14