NATURE FOR CLIMATE

The role of nature in solving our climate crisis is becoming increasingly clear - nature can sequester carbon and mitigate the impacts of climate change, while providing food and water for our growing population and protecting the world’s biodiversity.

NATURE FOR CLIMATE

Twelve reasons why we should care:

The loss of nature will accelerate climate change. At the same time, nature-based solutions that protect and restore ecosystems hold the key to climate change mitigation and adaptation. These nature-based climate solutions enable us to integrate the needs of biodiversity, productive ecosystems, and our growing population.

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There are many actions you can take to address climate change

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There are many actions you caan take to address climate change

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FEATURED - Data Tools

PREPdata by The Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness
A map-based, open data online platform that allows users to access and visualize spatial data reflecting past and future climate, as well as the physical and socioeconomic landscape for climate adaptation and resilience planning. The platform is continuing to evolve through the input of PREP partners and PREPdata users.

UNDP's Nature-Based Solutions Database by UNDP's Equator Initiative
Five continents, 500+ communities and thousands of ideas. Explore the UNDP's Solutions Database to learn how outstanding local communities and indigenous peoples around the world are making possible the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals through nature-based actions.

Resilience Atlas by Conservation International
An interactive analytical tool for building (1) understanding of the extent and severity of some of the key stressors and shocks that are affecting rural livelihoods, production systems, and ecosystems in the Sahel, Horn of Africa and South and Southeast Asia; and (2) insights into the ways that different types of wealth and assets impact resilience in particular contexts.

Resource Watch by World Resource Institute
Resource Watch features hundreds of data sets all in one place on the state of the planet’s resources and citizens. Users can visualize challenges facing people and the planet, from climate change to poverty, water risk to state instability, air pollution to human migration, and more.

Try the N4C Mapper tool

To address climate change, we have to invest in natural climate solutions alongside the energy transition. The imperative of realizing these carbon reductions become even more urgent if we are to limit warming to 1.5°C.

Which countries have the best carbon stores in nature? Find out here.

Try the N4C Mapper tool

Which countries have the best carbon stores in nature? Find out here.

Featured Initiative

Natural climate solutions are proven ways of storing and reducing carbon emissions in the world’s forests, grasslands and wetlands, and better stewardship of the land also has impact on other critical environmental, social and economic benefits.

Nature4Climate (N4C) is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and six world-leading not-for-profits (Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, Woods Hole Research Center, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, World Resources Institute and WWF) that aims to increase investment and action on natural climate solutions in support of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The N4C partners work together to catalyze partnerships between governments, civil society, business and investors to cut and remove greenhouse gas emissions across the land sector. To learn more, please visit www.nature4climate.org or follow @nature4climate on Twitter.

Featured InitiativeNatural climate solutions are proven ways of storing and reducing carbon emissions in the world’s forests, grasslands and wetlands, and better stewardship of the land also has impact on other critical environmental, social and economic benefits.