Discussion Papers, Concepts and Proposals: Recent submissions
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Facing Climate Change in the Field: Models of Forest and Territorial Governance Working in a Positive Way in Mesoamerica
(2019)The Mesoamerican experience confirms that where territorial and cultural rights are recognized for the access and use of natural resources, the beneficiaries and holders of such rights assume the control and management of ... -
Coral Reef Rescue - Building Climate Change Resilient Reefs and Communities
(2019)This is an ambitious initiative focused on coral reefs (and linked systems) that seeks to create mechanisms and mobilize resources to conserve low vulnerability reefs that have potential to re-seed to other regions once ... -
Watergen: Bringing Drinking Water to the World
(2019)Watergen works closely with private and public local stakeholders around the world in order to deliver its solution in a way that meets local needs and customs. For example, in the summer of 2018 the region of Kerala, India ... -
Leveraging NBS for Water Security and Climate Action
(2019)This contribution advances approaches to better link climate and water investments in the context of the significant investments that the water sector in Latin America is making in nature-based solutions. Activities will ... -
Launching the Nature-Based Solutions Project Preparation Financing Facility
(2019)WRI is calling for the creation of the Nature-based Solutions Project Preparation Financing Facility (NBS PPF), a multi-donor trust fund to provide the resources and capacity for cities, infrastructure operators, governments, ... -
Global Coordination for Carbon Storage in Collective Territories of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in the Equatorial Region - Contribution of the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities of the Tropical Forests
(2019)The indigenous territories located in the Amazon Basin, in the Mesoamerican region, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and in Indonesia contain 20.1% of the carbon stored on the surface in the tropical forests ... -
The Global Forest Project
(2019)The Global Forest Project ("GFP") is a Canadian led initiative, arising from the Young Champions for Nature Summit, Montreal, 2019 to create a global government partnership through the United Nations ("UN") to plant BILLIONS ... -
The REDD+ Acceleration Facility (RAF): Scaling Finance for Tropical Forest Protection
(2019)The RAF will help catalyze forest carbon markets alongside a new jurisdictional REDD+ standard in development to guarantee high environmental and social integrity and consistency with UNFCCC decisions, including the Paris ... -
Produce, Conserve, Include Strategy: Providing Proof of Concept of the Jurisdictional Approach in Mato Grosso, Brazil
(2019)One jurisdictional initiative, the “Produce, Conserve, Include (PCI) strategy,” aims to increase productivity while maintaining native vegetation cover and including smallholders and indigenous and traditional populations ... -
Great Sea Reef Conservation and Climate Resiliency Program
(2019)This program will support the sustainable management of coastal ecosystems of the Great Sea Reef (GSR) to maintain and enhance the climate resiliency benefits they provide, especially for the benefit of vulnerable coastal ... -
The Savusavu Blue Town Model
(2019)Fiji’s Blue model town initiative, would provide a valuable and compelling marketing and advertising platform for our strategic partners who have enlisted to work with Fiji to fund and implement the model town concept. -
Agroforestry a Nature Based Solution for Sustainability
(2019)The contribution will evaluate the five types of agroforestry practices: silvopasture, silvoarable, homegardens, riparian buffer strips and forest farming in the different types of land use across the world (table 1) as a ... -
50/50 - The Plan to Save Life on Earth
(2019)In April 2019, scientists published a paper explaining why protecting half the planet is needed, and how if embedded in a Global Deal for Nature it could promote increased habitat protection and restoration, national and ... -
Nature Champions Summit April 24 and 25, 2019
(2019)The Nature Champions Summit, co-hosted by Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Parks Canada Agency, Catherine McKenna, and Canada’s Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, Jonathan ... -
Year of the Tree: Seeding the Age of Restoration
(2019)This contribution consists of two overarching components: awareness raising and resource sharing. 1) Year of The Tree campaign puts our relationship with understanding trees at center stage as a solution for global efforts ... -
Global Coalition of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for the implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
(2019)Numerous initiatives and commitments have emerged in recent years in response to climate change, together with an increasing number of diverse sources of climate finance. The need for the private sector engagement has also ... -
Blue Lifelines for a Secure Sahel (BLiSS)
(2019)BLiSS will connect interventions for wetlands and drylands to reverse land degradation and build community resilience to climate change in the Sahel. Vision: Sahelian communities become more secure and resilient to climate ... -
Nature-based Climate Solutions
(2019)In co-operation with Royal HaskoningDHV and the Institute of Marine Sciences and Fisheries of the University of Chittagong, WUR contributed to the Deltaplan for Bangladesh, an interactive integrated plan for a futureproof ... -
AUT Living Laboratories
(2019)The research objective of the AUT Living Laboratories project is to fill knowledge gaps for planting the right trees on the right site for the right purpose. In particular, the Living Laboratories is focused on (a) optimal ... -
The Nature of the Climate and the Three Global Conditions Framework for Nature-Based Solutions
(2019)Using a Three Global Conditions Framework for Nature-Based Solutions approach would help ensure that nature -based solutions are planned to provide mutual benefits for nature conservation and climate change adaptation and ...
