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2021-11-10 | |
发布年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 英国 |
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正文(英文) | EA habitat creation and flood scheme leading the way on new ‘Global Standard’ for nature-based solutionsMedmerry managed realignment project successfully pilots the IUCN's new Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions An Environment Agency-led award-winning coastal habitat creation and flood alleviation scheme on the West Sussex coast has successfully piloted a new global standard for nature-based solutions established by the world-leading authority on conservation of nature. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) developed the Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions for use by governments, businesses, investors, communities and NGOs to ensure that nature-based solutions reach their potential to address societal challenges, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. The Global Standard will raise awareness of the benefit of nature-based solutions around the world and provide assurance for future investment in such schemes, including from the private sector, such as through carbon credits and biodiversity net gain. Scientists estimate that nature-based solutions could provide approximately one third of the climate change mitigation needed by 2030 to stabilise warming to below 2°C. IUCN worked with the Environment Agency to pilot the Global Standard using the Medmerry managed realignment project on the West Sussex coast. At the time of completion, the £28m Medmerry project was the largest open-coast scheme in Europe and is one of the most sustainable projects the Environment Agency has ever delivered and subject of universal acclaim. The project, delivered with the support of the RSPB and local communities, involved the construction of four miles of new sea defences to reduce the flood risk to hundreds of properties and created a new wetland for wildlife to flourish. Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency, said:
Through an EA-led process, Natural England, RSPB and multiple Wildlife Trusts also worked with IUCN to pilot the Global Standard with four other projects in England:
Stewart Maginnis, IUCN Deputy Director General, said:
Much of the Medmerry site is now managed by the RSPB as a nature reserve, and has become a wildlife haven with nesting sites among the pools supporting rare birds such as avocets, black-headed gulls, little ringed plovers and oystercatchers. Adrian Thomas, Medmerry project manager for the RSPB, said:
Published 10 November 2021
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/340700 |
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