Special Focus : Nature-based Solutions

Special focus: Nature Based Solutions

Prioritizing Nature-Based Solutions is a core aspect of IWRM Implementation

Special focus: Nature Based Solutions

Prioritizing Nature Based Solutions is a core aspect of a successful transition to more sustainable and inclusive water resources management

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Nature Based solutions (NBS) for water resources management involve the planned and deliberate use of ecosystem services to improve water quantity and quality and to increase resilience to climate change. Investment in NBS helps to safeguard and maintain ecosystems that are vital for food and water supplies, protect against natural disasters and provide goods and services key to human well-being and economic development.

NBS is a key focus area of the work of the UNEP-DHI Centre, and UNEP, aiming to change the way we interact with and depend on nature, to unlock its full potential for more sustainable water resources and water ecosystem management and climate resilience building.

Latest activities on Nature Based Solutions

Generation Restoration: Urban Nature-based Solutions Tool

November 4, 2024

The UNEP-DHI Centre is developing an online tool to support upscaling of urban Nature based Solutions (NBS) climate solutions, under UNEP’s Generation Restoration initiative (2023-2025). The Urban NBS Tool will support the identification and assessment of key environmental data in the project cities, with the goal to better understand climate risks and NBS potential to address these risks within the pilot cities.

Nature-based solutions supporting climate resilience in the Juba-Shabelle River basin

January 31, 2022

UNEP-DHI is supporting the National Flood and Drought Task Force of Somalia in researching the applicability of NbS for riverine and flash flood risk mitigation. The project focuses on the communities within the Juba-Shabelle River basin.

Free online course on Integrated Water Resources Management for Climate Resilience launched

September 7, 2021

Do you want to learn more about how IWRM can be used in practice to increase climate resilience? Sign up now for the new online course ‘IWRM for Climate Resilience’ with Cap-Net UNDP

Are you a Match!? New tool matches water practitioners with technology providers to help solve the world’s water challenges

June 24, 2021

Too much water, too little water, sea level rise, pollution, and increased climate change risks. Many of us know all about the world’s water management challenges, but few of us are aware of the growing number of technical solutions to help address these challenges. One of the reasons for this is that there is no single online space that gathers and organizes this kind of information in a clear and useful way….Until now.

UNEP Certificate Course on Nature Based Solutions

In January 2021, UNEP launched a new Mass Open Online Course on Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience. The course is open to everyone wishing to deepen their knowledge on the topic and is completely free, with participants receiving a certificate upon course completion.

UNEP and Nature Based Solutions

UNEP’s website page on Nature Based Solutions outlines the work they do on several critical areas such as reforestation and afforestation programmes, national ecosystem-based climate change adaptation plans and agro-ecological farming practices.

Webinar: Nature-based solutions to emerging water challenges in Asia Pacific

Join UNEP-DHI and CTCN on October 12th for the launch of this new publication, featuring cases and lessons learnt from implementing NBS in the region.

Nature-based solutions to emerging water challenges in the Asia Pacific region

This CTCN Knowledge Brief provides an illuminating and inspiring overview of the use of NbS technologies in adopting and implementing holistic solutions that exploit synergies wherever possible to tackle climate change and water management challenges in rural, urban and coastal areas.

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