Discussion Papers, Concepts and Proposals: Recent submissions
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Resilient Asian Deltas (RAD) Initiative
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2019)WWF’s Resilient Asian Deltas (RAD) initiative aims to stop the continent’s six largest delta systems – Ganges-Meghna-Brahmaputra, Indus, Irrawaddy, Mekong, Pearl and Yangtze – from sinking and shrinking. Targeting common ... -
Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative: Initial Results and Contributions to Global Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
(2019)The Sacred Headwaters region of Ecuador and Peru is composed of the ancestral territories of a dozen indigenous nations, adjoined by a number of protected areas, together forming a vast contiguous mosaic containing the ... -
The Sustainable Open Ocean Farming Imperative for the Future
(2019)Open Ocean Aquaculture is itself a Nature Based Solution to drive us towards implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Ocean farming is the future, and Manna Fish Farms, Inc. is currently awaiting ... -
Marine Educational Area - Nature-based Solution Coalition Proposed Contribution of the Permanent Mission of the Principality of Monaco
(2019)In Monaco, this project was proposed by the Monegasque Association for the Protection of Nature, a non-Governmental entity. The project is entirely dedicated to youth, in a local context, as the selected site for the ... -
Sustainable Financing Mechanism for Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas - Nature-based Solution Coalition Proposed Contribution of the Permanent Mission of the Principality of Monaco
(2019)The Principality of Monaco has a long-standing commitment to develop and promote MPAs. Among the initiatives undertook, Monaco set regional tools in cooperation with its neighboring countries such as the Pelagos Agreement1, ... -
Municipal Natural Asset Management as a Means to Ensure the Viability of Natural Systems
(2019-07)Municipalities play a vital role both in protecting and preserving natural assets and ecosystem services and in providing citizens with core services. The MNAI team provides scientific, economic and municipal expertise ... -
Climate Solution: Protecting Primary Forests is Essential for a Safe Climate
(2019)Protecting Primary Forests is Essential for a Safe Climate (Wild Heritage, CLARA) -
Conservation through Land Titling of Indigenous Peoples Lands and Sustainable Management of their Natural Resources
(2019)In many parts of Central America you see a great overlap between the intact forests and the indigenous peoples territories, as the indigenous peoples have been living in these areas for generations and have fought to ... -
Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in Drylands
(2019)Overall, the contribution aims to improve livelihoods through dryland ecosystem restoration and sustainable management in a changing climate, and to promote continued cooperation among developing countries. Both natural ... -
Building the Business Case for Nature-based Solutions for Watersheds
(2019)A private-public initiative to scale private investment in nature-based solutions by developing: a standardized framework to demonstrate and value stacked water-carbon benefits associated with the implementation of ... -
A Carbon Removal Commitment for Countries
(2019)Concept note based on initial dialogue between Volans, UN Global Compact and WRI. -
The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100)
(2019)The African Union Development Agency (AUDA)-NEPAD Agency has a network of partners across Africa that could provide a perspective from the African Regional point of view. The AFR100 Secretariat works closely with country ... -
Natural Climate Solutions Alliance of Governments
(2019)Every country joining the Alliance should commit to: a) Examine how to maximize natural climate solutions when considering how to enhance their nationally determined contributions (“NDC”) under the Paris Agreement; b) ... -
Developing Innovative Solutions that Reduce Vulnerability and Build Resilience to Ocean Risk
(2019)The Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA) brings together organisations from the public and private sectors and civil society focused on developing risk management strategies using the experience and expertise ... -
Leaders for Ocean-Climate Action
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Ecology Positive Cities Framework
(2019)My natural based solution contribution goes to the heart of sustainability and human well-being. It balances practicality with vivid consequences. It turns the problem of rampant population growth and urbanization into ... -
Input from Japan: Circulating and Ecological Economy (CEE) for the United Nations Climate Action Summit
(2019)In order to attain sustainable future, the Government of Japan (GOJ) has continued putting effort into creation of a “Circulating and Ecological Economy” or CEE to reflect the philosophy of the 2030 Agenda and achieve ... -
Developing a Scalable Business Model to Support Large-scale Global Coral Reef Restoration
(2019)Coral Vita’s land-based farms integrate breakthrough methods to accelerate coral growth up to 50x (microfragmenting) while enhancing their resiliency to warming and acidifying oceans (assisted evolution). And our model ... -
Bringing Concrete to Life - Enhancing Natural Processes on Concrete Based Coastal and Marine Infrastructure (CMI)
(2019)The ecological engineering of shorelines schemes is an evolving discipline (Mitsch., 2012) with the aim of building more inclusive, resilient and safe coastal and marine structures for people and nature that maximize ... -
Sustainable Solutions: Ocean Opportunities & Small Island States (SOS-IS)
(2019)The contribution has two objectives: i) Create a network of Eco Observatories and Parks to baseline, outreach, and conduct ecotourism, inspired by UNESCO Eco Observatories, the Treetop Canopy Walkway in the Falealupo ...
