Calling all #NatureBasedSolutions seekers, experts, engineers, researchers & students!
Interested in joining a @LinkedIn#community that works together to overcome social-climate related challenges through #innovation & #sustainability?
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๐ Nature offers us so many things at no cost that these benefits โ called โecosystem servicesโ โ are not always fully reflected in the benefit-cost analysis.
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''We must measure what we value, not just value what is simple to measure.''
In collaboration with the Office of Science and Technology Policy, OIRA is publishing a draft of the first-ever US government guideline on the inclusion of ecosystem services in benefit-cost analysis.
๐ Cities are living environments that are constantly changing, shifting, and growing over time and can be characterized by heavy resource depletion, high emissions and high population densities.
Get to know the story behind our experts: Jaap Klein
Jaap Klein is the senior project manager #climateadaptation and #urban#watermanagement @WitteveenBos.
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What is #ClimateSmartAgriculture (CSA)?
CSA is an approach that helps guide actions to transform agri-food systems towards green & #climateresilient practices - to store #carbon & improve resilience & soil health.
Examples:
ยท vertical farming
ยท cover crops
ยท prescribed grazing
๐ง "The #water determines, the #landscape leads, whilst #people and #nature profit," is the mantra that provides guidance in most of the projects of #NatureBasedSolutions#Sustainable#River Management Expert, Jeroen Rijke.
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The NBSOS methodology is a product of @WorldBank Global Program on Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience (GPNBS) at the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (@GFDRR)
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How to map the potential benefits of #NatureBasedSolutions and identify investment opportunities in cities and along coastlines anywhere in the worldโ๐
In 2022 and 2023 the #NatureBasedSolutions Opportunity Scan has been successfully applied in 32 cities and in 4 #coastal landscapes.
Find out more here: https://t.co/Dn8yRJCgX6