Raquel Castillo Puentes dreams of protecting her lands and building a climate-resilient future for generations to come with the support of a Green Climate Fund-financed UNDP-supported project in Colombia’s La Mojana.
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'A healthy marine eco-system for Abemama’s food security' April 2021
April 2021 – A team from the Coastal Fisheries Division, Tanaea has returned from Abemama island having successfully carried out coral planting and seagrass restoration. The main goal of these activities is to help restore the health of these two marine habitats (coral and seagrass) in order to support the ecosystem for coastal marine species and to build the island's resilience to climate change.
Nature-based Solutions Valuation Report
Incorporating climate-informed cost-benefit analysis into assessment of Nature-based Solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean
Nature-based solutions policy brief - Nature-based solutions, market resilience and food sovereignty
As evidenced in the UNDP LAC portfolio, NbS offer the potential to enhance the resil
UNDP Issues Brief on Nature-Based Climate Solutions
The conservation, rehabilitation and climate-informed management of biodiversity and ecosystems increases resilience to climate change and provides low-cost and long-term solutions to protect lives, livelihoods and infrastructure, and advance progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
Partnerships
Since 2000, UNDP's global biodiversity program, with financing from the Global Environment Facility and other sources, has been successful in helping to strengthen more than 3,000 protected areas covering more than 680 million hectares including marine, terrestrial, and indigenous and community-conserved areas; and undertaking interventions in production sectors and development planning, covering more than 250 million hectares of production landscapes and seascapes.
The work of UNDP’s Climate and Forests Team contributes to both SDG13 (climate action) and SDG15 (forest ecosystems), addressing their close linkages. When promoting forest and climate policies and investments in countries, UNDP employs a social inclusion approach, wherein effective stakeholder engagement is ensured, the rights of indigenous peoples and forest communities are promoted, gender equality and women’s empowerment principles are mainstreamed, and policy reforms towards more equitable land use and tenure systems are encouraged.
UN-REDD is the flagship UN knowledge and advisory partnership on forests and climate to reduce forest emissions and enhance forest carbon stocks. It is the largest international provider of REDD+ assistance, supporting its 65 partner countries to protect their forests and achieve their climate and sustainable development goals.
Friends of Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (FEBA) is a global collaborative network of more than 90 agencies and organizations involved in EbA working jointly to share experiences and knowledge, to improve the implementation of EbA related activities on the ground, and to have a stronger and more strategic learning and policy influence on EbA.
