From Indonesia to Gabon, countries turn to nature to cut climate risks
By Laurie Goering
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Creating more “nature-based solutions” like this - planting coastal mangroves or protecting coral reefs to slow storm surges - is a relatively cheap and effective way to curb rising climate change risks, resilience experts told a meeting in New York.
It could also help address other threats, including accelerating losses of plant and animal species not just from climate change but also expanding agriculture, forest-felling and mining, to meet the needs of a rising human population.
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Andrew Norton, director of the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), said efforts to maintain ecosystems can provide “a stunning range” of benefits, from jobs to absorption of climate-changing gases.
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Natural ways of dealing with climate change have seen a “wave of political momentum” in the build-up to the U.N. climate summit, speakers said on Sunday.
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