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Nature-based solutions are emerging as one of the key ways to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss and pollution and waste. They are rooted in locally-appropriate actions that provide human well-being and biodiversity benefits by protecting, sustainably managing and restoring ecosystems. For example, restoring local forests can conserve biodiversity, while protecting communities from extreme weather events, preventing soil erosion and contributing to climate mitigation.

But nature, and the solutions it may offer, are in trouble. We are losing species at a rate 1,000 times greater than at any other time in recorded human history, and one million species face extinction.

United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP’s) Making Peace with Nature report shows that humans now impact three-quarters of the land and two-thirds of the oceans and many of the ecosystem services essential for human wellbeing are eroding.

Confronted with these crises, the world is working towards an ambitious and measurable Post-2020 global biodiversity framework, as highlighted at the recent UN Biodiversity Conference (COP-15) in Kunming, China.