Tag: NbS
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Carving the Skeleton: Policy Pathways for Reframing Urban Nature-based Solutions in South Asian Cities
Within the context of urbanized areas, nature-based solutions hold massive potential and are imperative for building sustainable and resilient cities: crucial to sustainability is locking in the concept within the policy framework. ‘Nature-based solutions (NbS)’ has gained momentum in recent years owing to its co-benefits which range from addressing societal and environmental challenges to climate…
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First year of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: Nature-based solution (NbS) and Bangladesh
Where do we stand after COP26 and where to go?
The United Nations called for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration for the protection and revival of ecosystems around the world and for the benefit of people and nature. To achieve global goals it aims to halt the degradation and restore the ecosystem. Whereas, nature-based solutions or NbS are actions to protect, sustainably manage…
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Real development needs nature-based solutions
We are all immensely proud of the economic development being achieved by Bangladesh and looking forward to our graduation from Least Developed Country (LDC) status to middle income country status within the next few years. However, as we move our development pathway forward we are facing a very significant fork in the road ahead and…