Climate and development brief: Nature-based solutions for climate resilience and adaptation

This brief look at key areas of climate action related to nature-based solutions. It analyzes the challenge, what is needed, how the World Bank Group is contributing to solutions and what success looks like.Nature-based solutions (NBS) are a cost-effective way to address climate resilience challenges that bring benefits for nature, livelihoods and development.

This brief recommends that from the project to strategic levels, opportunities from NBS should be incorporated into project development. Exploring the potential from nature-based components should be the norm, not the exception. Likewise, climate resilience and nature objectives should be translated into policy changes such as regulations for urban and coastal planning, environmental impact assessments and biodiversity conservation.