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Header photo: forest restoration in Uganda © Fanny Verkuijlen / IUCN NL
MoMo4C is a five-year programme of IUCN NL, WWF-NL, Tropenbos International, and six local partner organisations in Cameroon, Ghana, Indonesia, Uganda and Zambia. The programme is funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has entered its final year.
Nature-based solutions (NbS) leverage the power of nature and healthy ecosystems to protect people against the impacts of climate change. Examples include green infrastructure such as coastal mangroves and organic foods and other products produced in community-led, biodiversity-rich agro-forestry systems that help protect water, soils and livelihoods.
MoMo4C uses an integrated landscape approach to nature-based solutions. This means that communities in the landscapes work with local civil society organisations, government agencies and responsible companies, to jointly address the dual global crises of biodiversity loss and climate change.
In a recently published paper, seventeen NbS initiatives supported by MoMo4C were analysed. These business cases were conceptualised, developed, implemented and/or scaled up in Ghana, Zambia, Indonesia, Uganda and Cameroon. All aim to develop eventually into investable enterprises.
To understand the effectiveness, opportunities and risks of NbS under MoMo4C, these initiatives were assessed against the NbS definition of the United Nations Environment Assembly and the 2020 IUCN NbS standard. The paper concludes that in areas where biodiversity is still rich but increasingly under threat, nature-based solutions can help turning the dual biodiversity-climate crises around by engaging with and strengthening the capacity of communities.
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