Nature-based Solutions (NbS)
Adaptation Leader takes an ecosystem-based approach to climate adaptation.
• Nature-based Solutions (NbS) enable organizations to look beyond gray or engineered infrastructure by taking an integrated and holistic approach.
• The protection, management, restoration, and creation of “green” or “blue” ecosystems can provide a wide range of economic, environmental, and social benefits at multiple scales.
• Extreme weather, water scarcity, and other climate change factors are severely disrupting business as usual, but also create opportunities for innovative approaches based on natural systems and processes.