Story | 21 May, 2021

Natural Climate Solutions

Enhancing Canada’s Climate Change Ambitions

 

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Enhancing Canada's Climate Change ambitions with Natural Solutions  report

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Special Report by Risa Smith, Leader WCPA Protected Areas Climate Change Specialist Group

Understanding Nature-Based Climate Solutions (NbCS) or Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) will be increasingly important as countries prepare for this fall’s global agreements on climate and on biodiversity.   Protecting carbon-dense/high-biodiversity ecosystems is the most effective way to achieve both climate change and biodiversity goals by 2030.  This report provides options for one country - Canada - to make maximum use of NCS.