How can we most effectively implement nature-based solutions, such as tree planting and peatland restoration, to address climate change, support progress to net zero carbon emission, reduce biodiversity loss and prevent poverty?
Background
How can we effectively protect, manage and restore natural and modified ecosystems to help address societal challenges? Whilst also providing biodiversity benefits and human wellbeing – from abundant wildlife to green jobs to clean water?
Societal challenges include mitigating and adapting to climate change. These could be addressed by supporting ecosystem functions that deliver services such as carbon sequestration, coastal resilience, and natural flood management.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Landscape Regeneration Solutions to the Interlinked Extinction and Climate Crises that support Sustainable Development
Nature-based solutions (NbS*) are responses to societal challenges that involve working with nature to deliver benefits for both people and biodiversity. They include protecting existing ecosystems, restoring degraded ec...
Funded by: NERC
Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses the question fully and the authors have the necessary expertise.
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Identifying potential tipping points in the benefits derived from the UK's land ecosystems
Our research aims to identify whether the benefits flowing to us from the UK's land ecosystems - including the provision of food, recreational value, water quality, natural flood protection, and greenhouse gas storage - ...
Funded by: NERC
Why might this be relevant?
The project partially addresses the question and the authors have the necessary expertise.
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Understanding ecostytem stocks and tipping points in UK blanket peatlands (short form: Peatland Tipping Points)
The aim of this project is to use UK peatlands as a case system in which to understand how the combined effects of climate change and changes in land use and management (and other drivers, such as atmospheric deposition)...
Funded by: NERC
Why might this be relevant?
The project partially addresses the question and the authors have the necessary expertise.