Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems, which address societal challenges (e.g. climate change, food and water security, or natural disasters) effectively and adaptively, while simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits.
This report proposes a framework for Nature-based Solutions (NbS), including a set of general principles for any intervention. It defines the scope of NbS as an umbrella concept embracing a number of different ecosystem-based approaches. These NbS approaches include, for example, ecological restoration, ecological engineering, forest landscape restoration, ecosystem-based adaptation, ecosystem-based mitigation, ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction, green infrastructure, ecosystem-based management, and the various area-based conservation approaches such as protected area management.
The report also presents ten case studies of NbS applications from around the world and looks at some of the lessons learned from these cases in order to support future replication and upscaling.