Our planet is experiencing rapid climate changes because nature is unable to keep pace with human activity
commissioned for the Climate Change Advisory Council, we identified 81 different projects, schemes and sites where nature has been used to provide climate solutions while supporting biodiversity and providing benefits to people.The climate change mess we are in is a consequence of burning millions of years of stored carbon from ancient forests as fossil fuels in a very short time.
We can do two things to give nature and ourselves a helping hand with climate change: protect and restore ecosystems so they can continue to provide us with critical protection and ecosystem services like pollination and flood protection, and incorporate nature into the solutions that we are developing to stop climate change and adapt to its effects.
Some of these nature-based solutions are regularly incorporated into new developments. Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems include a wide range of different ways of slowing rainwater flow and enabling it to infiltrate deeper into the soil, rather than flowing off impervious concrete surfaces into our overburdened wastewater treatment systems.
The most common nature-based solutions are probably those provided on farms. There is a relatively long history of development of agro-ecological solutions to soil fertility, pest control, livestock protection and carbon sequestration on farms. Organic farms use nature-based solutions throughout all their operations, relying on cover crops, nitrogen-fixing plants and manure rather than chemical fertilisers.
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