Intervention · Intervention

Nature-based solution

Intervention that protects, sustainably manages, and restores natural or modified ecosystems to address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, benefiting both people and biodiversity.

Definition source: IUCN; IPCC AR6 WGII Glossary: Nature-based solutions

Synonyms

NbS

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Mitigation

Mitigation-conditional: Principle applies to a mitigation intervention or outcome; NOT mitigation when applied as a generic sustainability value, with no mitigation intervention or outcome to attach to.

Provenance

Lexicon consensus

Identifier

INT_271 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_271
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_271)