Nature-based solutions for Sustainable Development
What do you think is the biggest wins in support of Tagar#nature based solutions from 2024?
Here are some of mine:
🇪🇺 The approval of the European Union’s Nature Restoration Law
🌱 Article 6.4’s Global Carbon Market Standards adopted at COP29
⚖️ International Court Enforces Environmental Rights
🇧🇷 Deforestation Reduction in the Amazon (read Julian Johnson account below on ranging fires in the Tagar#amazon for a nuance)
🇬🇷 Greece bans bottom trawling in marine protected areas (but Tagar#spain, Tagar#portugal and Tagar#france still permitting!)
🌊 The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea declares that nations must protect oceans from greenhouse gas emissions
Here are two major losses:
🛑 Failure to agree on a Global Plastic treaty to phase out
🛑 EU’s ‘delay’ in implementing the EU Deforestation Law
For the kids in the back: Tagar#naturebasedsolutions are cheap, effective, and scalable, making them an ideal tool to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and other environmental disasters.
Tagar#NBS come in different shapes and forms – protecting, managing, or enhancing existing natural solutions and creating engineering solutions that mimic natural processes:
🐚 Protecting and restoring coral reefs
🎄 Keeping forests standing
🌆 Building greener cities
🦟 Constructed wetlands (peatlands can help remove carbon from the atmosphere)
🦐 Mangrove restoration (the roots of mangroves can help reduce the impact of waves on the land)
🌷 Green walls, roofs, alleys, pavements, you name it!
🌾 Rain gardens, living breakwaters.
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