Nature-based Resilience: Confronting the triple planetary crisis of climate change, environmental pollution, and biodiversity loss using freshwater NbS

“Nature-based Resilience” will demonstrate the important contribution freshwater NbS can make in achieving climate and biodiversity targets, while also reducing water-based pollution. However, the report also argues that in order to realize the multiple benefits of freshwater NbS, we must transform the ways in which we manage freshwater ecosystems, moving from an exclusive emphasis on efficiency and preservation towards managing for resilience.

Released during UNFCCC COP27 and just ahead of COP 15.2 to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in late 2022, the report presents case study examples, rationale, and recommendations for maximizing synergies between national climate and biodiversity agendas to tackle the triple planetary crisis.

The report is a joint publication between AGWA and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).