By Diego Alonso Portugal Del Pino, Co-Lead, IUCN CEM Nature-based Solutions Thematic Group. Spanish version of this post can be read here. In 2015, together with colleagues from different fields of study, we decided to create an NGO Ficus Peru,…
Category: Nature Based Solutions
Why 2020 matters
By Deepu Sivadas, Co-Lead, IUCN CEM Young Professionals Network. In the 1980s, climate change was considered a matter for the future. In 2019, we faced the harsh reality of climate change. Studies and reports have indicated that we are almost…
Nature has solutions!
By Somaya Magdy Ghoraba, IUCN CEM Young Professional. Although we live on the blue planet, ocean environment remains a mystery. A tiny per cent of earth’s oceans have been explored—may be due to difficulty of accessibility, accordingly, we know little…
Nature-based Solutions and social cohesion in Latin America
By Diego Portugal Del Pino, Co-Lead, IUCN CEM Nature-based Solutions Thematic Group. On my first post, I wrote about the definitions and challenges ahead of Nature-based Solutions (NbS). In this post, I would like to draw attention to the actions…
Rising for Nature: Youth at the UN Climate Action Summit and New York Climate Week
By Hailey May, Communications Lead, Youth4Nature. Youth4Nature is an international initiative focused on empowering youth to act on our biodiversity and climate crisis using nature-based solutions. It creates meaningful opportunities for young people through knowledge-sharing, capacity-building and storytelling. Youth4Nature delegation…
A quick review of Nature-based Solutions and its future expected outcomes
By Diego Portugal Del Pino, Co-Lead, IUCN CEM Nature-based Solutions Thematic Group. In the last decades, international organizations have proposed different innovative ways to tackle environmental issues with programs such as ‘’Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the…