{"id":3643,"date":"2019-07-09T06:13:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T06:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","slug":"the-answer-is-in-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/09\/the-answer-is-in-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Answer Is In Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.undp.org\/content\/undp\/en\/home.html\"> By United Nations Development Programme<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do people and trees have in common?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re complex life systems, engineered by nature. Both are highly dependent on water to survive, and each is ultimately reliant on the other for secure access to life-sustaining H2O.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nature\u2019s technology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our planet already has specially designed ecosystems to heal itself. The answer to our water challenges lies in nature\u2019s technology, especially in its forests and trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our blue planet is running out of freshwater, the life force that sustains us all. While 70 percent of the Earth is covered in water, only 3 percent of that is freshwater. And humans are consuming water at a rate faster than nature\u2019s ability to replenish it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To highlight this, UNDP reached out to Earth-imaging company <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.planet.com\/company\/approach\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planet  <\/a>for visuals that reveal the scale of the peril and highlight nature-based solutions to this global challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.undp.org\/content\/undp\/en\/home\/stories\/the-answer-is-in-nature.html\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By United Nations Development Programme What do people and trees have in common? They\u2019re complex life systems, engineered by nature. Both are highly dependent on water to survive, and each&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3645,"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-3643","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\/3643","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=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}