Publication: Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Resilience in the World Bank Portfolio
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2023-03-21
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2023-03-21
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World Bank
Abstract
Countries are facing increasingly
complex climate-related challenges, which undermine
resilience and require integrated and innovative solutions.
Nature-based solutions (NBS) have emerged as cost-effective
alternatives to conventional gray infrastructure, delivering
greater resilience in the longer term and providing a host
of additional benefits. NBSs are defined as actions to
protect, conserve, restore, sustainably use and manage
natural or modified terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and
marine ecosystems, which address social, economic and
environmental challenges effectively and adaptively, while
simultaneously providing human well-being, ecosystem
services and resilience and biodiversity benefits. NBSs that
are used with the explicit objective of reducing climate and
disaster risks are called NBS for climate resilience.
Related terms could include eco-DRR (disaster risk
reduction), NBS for disaster risk management, or
ecosystem-based adaptation. However, NBSs for climate
resilience also provide other benefits such as provision of
food or drinking water or opportunities for recreation and
climate regulation. NBSs for climate resilience are applied
across different geographies. As GPNBS scales-up its effort
to provide targeted support to World Bank task teams and
clients, monitoring and tracking the NBS footprint in the
World Bank’s portfolio will remain a key tool. This paper
aims to inform World Bank and GFDRR leadership, donors,
clients, and the global community on the World Bank’s
progress in mainstreaming NBS for climate resilience, and to
inform decisions on targeting capacity building efforts and
technical support to operations.
Citation
“World Bank. 2023. Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Resilience in the World Bank Portfolio. © Washington DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/39560 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO.”