{"id":12351,"date":"2021-03-31T10:25:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T07:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=12351"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:27","slug":"new-fund-leverages-nature-to-adapt-to-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2021\/03\/31\/new-fund-leverages-nature-to-adapt-to-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"New fund leverages nature to adapt to climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did you know nature is one of humanity\u2019s best defences for adapting to climate change? A new funding opportunity is scaling up ecosystem-based adaptation across the world. The call for proposals is now&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalebafund.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">open<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.decadeonrestoration.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration<\/a>&nbsp;is launching in June this year. The goal is ambitious \u2013 to trigger a global movement for restoring the world\u2019s ecosystems. This is not merely for nature\u2019s sake, say experts. Mounting evidence shows that a global re-greening could help humanity adapt to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In cities,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/six-ways-nature-can-protect-us-climate-change\">restoring urban forests<\/a>&nbsp;cools the air and reduces heatwaves. On coasts, mangrove forests provide&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/forests-and-passion-heros-guide-resisting-climate-change\">natural sea defences<\/a>&nbsp;from storm surges. And in high altitudes,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/where-there-used-be-so-much-there-so-little-challenge-climate-change-comoros\">re-greening mountain slopes protects communities<\/a>&nbsp;from climate-induced landslides and avalanches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To support more of this work, known as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/explore-topics\/climate-change\/what-we-do\/climate-adaptation\/ecosystem-based-adaptation\">ecosystem-based adaptation<\/a>&nbsp;(EbA), the new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalebafund.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global EbA Fund<\/a>&nbsp;opened its first call for proposals on 25 March. The fund, led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), will provide grants for innovative approaches to ecosystem-based adaptation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe momentum for nature-based solutions is building and the Global EbA Fund is ready to push this work to the next level,\u201d says Tim Christophersen, UNEP\u2019s Coordinator of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/new-fund-leverages-nature-adapt-climate-change\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know nature is one of humanity\u2019s best defences for adapting to climate change? A new funding opportunity is scaling up ecosystem-based adaptation across the world. The call for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}