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Overview

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) use nature and healthy ecosystems to deliver benefits for people and nature at the same time. They are actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural and modified ecosystems in a way that targets major societal challenges. These challenges include things like climate change, disaster risk reduction, food and water security, biodiversity loss and human health.

This collection provides an overview of the basics of NbS: what are they, where are they, and how can they help us.

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IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions: first edition

A user-friendly framework for the verification, design and scaling up of nature-based solutions
Framework · 2020 · International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

What you need to know about Nature-based Solutions to climate change

Brief introduction to NbS and how they can be used to combat climate change
News Item · 2022 · World Bank
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Nature Positive Disaster Risk Reduction Solutions

Discussion paper exploring opportunities to use NbS for disaster risk reduction in Australia
2024 · Suncorp and Natural Hazards Research Australia
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Nature’s resilience dividend: How nature can strengthen Sydney’s flood and coastal hazard resilience

Explores how NbS for disaster resilience can be successfully integrated in urban environments.
2025 · Committee for Sydney

Restoring salt marsh for coastal protection and blue carbon

A novel project delivers lessons in navigating regulatory processes to deliver ecological benefits
Case study · 2024
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