Adaptation Fund is fostering nature-based solutions and ecosystem-based adaptation

As the Adaptation Fund commemorated Earth Day on April 22, its policies continue to uphold strong environmental principles while promoting biodiversity and often nature-based solutions (NBS) on the ground within the context of helping vulnerable countries adapt to climate change.

 

For example, in the small island developing state of Seychelles a project funded by Adaptation Fund and implemented by UNDP and the Ministry of Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment is building resilience to the effects of rising sea levels, cyclones and erratic rainfall such as floods and water scarcity through ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA).

 

These EbA approaches are securing water supplies, cleaning wetlands, and providing protections against flooding and drought by applying nature-based solutions such as reforestation that enhances upland wetlands and water catchment areas as well as endemic and native plant species, while reducing erosion.