Nature and Objectives: Ecosystems play a vital role in regulating climate and protecting life. Nature-based solutions focus on maintaining, restoring, and sustainably using these ecosystems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation) and enhance human resilience to negative impacts such as floods, droughts, and heatwaves (adaptation).
Overall Benefits: These are often considered "no-regret" solutions, as they offer multiple parallel benefits such as biodiversity conservation, disaster risk reduction, and sustainable resource management, even when the impacts of climate change do not unfold as predicted.
Economic Efficiency: Nature-based solutions are generally more sustainable and cost-effective in the long term than purely engineering measures. Furthermore, they create additional economic value such as job opportunities and improved quality of life for local communities.
Successful Implementation: Realizing projects requires multi-sectoral collaboration, networking of stakeholders (such as government, scientists, and the community), and active public participation. Key factors for success include integrating the project into political strategies, transparent communication, flexible planning, and ensuring consensus among stakeholders.
Financing: Currently, there is no dedicated fund, but the project can be financed through a variety of resources, including EU funds, national budgets, and increasing contributions from private investors and endowment funds.
