Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Adaptation : Nature-Based Solutions from the World Bank Portfolio
By C. Sobrevila, V. Hickey, K. Mackinnon. 2008
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Climate change is a serious environmental challenge that could undermine the drive for sustainable development. Since the industrial revolution, the mean surface temperature of earth has increased an average of 1degree celsius per century due to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Furthermore, most of this change has occurred in the past 30 to 40 years, and the rate of increase is accelerating, with significant impacts both at a global scale and at local and regional levels. While it remains important to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reverse climate change in the long run, many of the impacts of climate change are already in evidence. As a result, governments, communities, and civil society are increasingly concerned with anticipating the future effects of climate change while searching for strategies to mitigate, and adapt to, it's current effects.
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Citations in the corpus
- Core principles for successfully implementing and upscaling Nature-based Solutions (2019, background): “Although this relationship has been recognized for centuries in traditional knowledge (Berkes, 2012), its framing as ‘ecosystem services’ only started to appear in the scientific literature in the 1970s (Westman, 1977; Gómez-Baggethun et al., 2010).”
- Soil-Related Sustainable Development Goals: Four Concepts to Make Land Degradation Neutrality and Restoration Work (2018, background): “The term Nature-Based Solution emerged about ten years ago with publications by MacKinnon and colleagues [52,53] and is strongly related to terms like Ecosystem Services, natural capital, ecological engineering, and blue-green infrastructure, etc.”
- Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change (2021, unknown): “The first publication to focus on NbS was a report by the World Bank in 2008 detailing the climate change mitigation and adaptation benefits of the Bank's investments in biodiversity conservation (Mackinnon et al., 2008).”