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The term nature-based solutions was put forward by practitioners in the late 2000s. At that time it was used by international organisations such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the World Bank in the context of finding new solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change effects by working with natural ecosystems rather than relying purely on engineering interventions.
When co-benefits are taken into account, nature-based solutions have been found to be on average 42% cheaper and create 36% more value than fully gray infrastructure solutions.
Council on Environmental Quality building at 730 Jackson Place in Washington, D.C.. The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is a division of the Executive Office of the President that coordinates federal environmental efforts in the United States and works closely with agencies and other White House offices on the development of environmental and energy policies and initiatives.
At the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2016, IUCN Members agreed on a definition of nature-based solutions. [15] Members also called for governments to include nature-based solutions in strategies to combat climate change.
Biden on Thursday convened senior White House and administration officials for a briefing on the federal response to the wildfires, and officials noted that the problem was the electrical outages ...
In May 2022 the White House Council on Environmental Quality released a report in which it describes how Biden's administration followed the around 200 recommendations of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. The full report has around 150 pages.
The White House also sent around a transcript in an attempt to show that Biden was not saying that Trump supporters were “garbage” but that he tripped over his lines and meant to say he was ...
Nature-positive is a concept and goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, and to achieve full nature recovery by 2050. [1] According to the World Wide Fund for Nature , the aim is to achieve this through "measurable gains in the health , abundance , diversity, and resilience of species , ecosystems , and natural processes."