Nature’s Power in Action: Linking Ground Realities with Global Adaptation & Resilience Goals

As climate impacts intensify, ecosystem-based and community-driven approaches have become essential to building resilience and protecting vulnerable communities. This session showcases evidence from climate adaptation projects under the Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation (NAbSA) initiative and the Global Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) Fund. It highlights how gender equality, Indigenous leadership, and human rights-based approaches are central to just and effective adaptation.

Over the past decade, locally-grounded adaptation practices have evolved from niche interventions to widely recognised strategies that connect community realities to global frameworks such as the Paris Agreement, the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), the ENACT Partnership, and the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The soon-to-be-launched NAbSA Operational Framework and lessons from Global EbA Fund projects demonstrate how locally-led, adaptation and resilience actions can be scaled to achieve systemic impact.

The event aligns with COP30 priorities on Adaptation and Resilience, Nature, Forests and Oceans, and Inclusion and Rights-Based Climate Action, embodying the COP30 vision of bridging local realities with global ambition – the “Global Mutirão.”

Agenda and speakers to be shared soon.

Learn more about the NAbSA initiative.

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