Abstract

In recent years, there has been a lot of focus on the conservation, restoration, management, and long-term use of natural and modified ecosystems to address climate change mitigation. These sorts of activities, however, are frequently not intended to address other global concerns, and hence they lose an opportunity to bring major non-mitigation benefits while jeopardizing their mitigation potential. We emphasize the importance of planning Nature-based Solutions for mitigation while taking into account the full range of global challenges that societies face, and we propose a set of considerations to ensure that those types of solutions also provide climate adaptation, biodiversity, and/or human well-being benefits. Nature-based solutions for climate mitigation that can also address other global challenges are very timely, because every nature-based effort should seize the opportunity to address a variety of pressing issues in order to continue delivering mitigation and other benefits in this critical decade.

Keywords

Nature-based solutions, Climate mitigation, Ecosystem restoration, Biodiversity co-benefits, Climate adaptation, Human well-being