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Displaying 5 of about 5 resultsThis briefing provides an overview of the wide range of socio-economic benefits that nature-based solutions can achieve alongside addressing the intertwined climate change and biodiversity loss crises. The briefing highlights the central role these solutions can play in achieving the EU’s 2030 commitments and describes the obstacles that have so far pre…
• Ishinomaki City promoted the introduction of an energy system combined with solar power generators, storage batteries, and BEMS to elementary and junior high schools within the city and in Shin-Hebita District where disaster public housings were concentrated. The city aimed to build a town that could secure the power generated by renewable energy in t…
This paper provides a physics-based evaluation of how coral restoration can reduce coastal flooding for various types of reefs. Wave-driven flooding reduction is greatest for broader, shallower restorations on the upper fore reef and between the middle of the reef flat and the shoreline than for deeper locations on the fore reef or at the reef crest. Th…
This report provides a review and synthesis of the economic impacts of the 2019-2020 bushfires on agriculture and the wider food system. Of the more than 10 million hectares burnt in south-eastern Australia during the 2019-2020 fire season, around one-quarter was agricultural land. To assess this impact in economic terms, the researchers investigated th…
This paper assesses why Vietnam has not been as effective in dealing with environmental and climate challenges as with the COVID-19 crisis, which are arguably different but have also many similarities. The successful experience in implementing the right measures at the right time during the COVID-19 crisis deserves more attention as it can inspire polic…