Naturebased Climate Action
Combining climate action and nature conservation
Healthy ecosystems are a natural defence against climate change. Forests and floodplains, soils and peatlands, seas and water bodies, and urban and rural near-natural green spaces remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it for the long term. Nature-based climate action combines climate change mitigation with nature conservation. It specifically counteracts the dual crisis of global heating and biodiversity loss. To this end, Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke has presented the Action Plan on Nature-based Solutions for Climate and Biodiversity.
Action Plan on Nature-based Solutions for Climate and Biodiversity
Action Plan on Nature-based Solutions for Climate and Biodiversity
The Federal Action Plan on Nature-based Solutions for Climate and Biodiversity will protect, strengthen and restore ecosystems. The plan links climate action with nature conservation and ensures that degraded ecosystems regain their health, their resilience and their biodiversity through a variety of measures.
What is nature-based climate action?
Forests and floodplains, soils and peatlands, seas and water bodies, urban and rural near-natural green spaces – all these ecosystems are natural defences against climate change. They can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it for the long term – as long as they are healthy, in other words ecologically intact.
