Using nature based solutions to foster synergies between biodiversity and climate: Missed chances and new opportunities for a sustainable future

This paper assesses how EU policies and investments have spurred the uptake of nature-based solutions to support biodiversity and ecosystem health. It outlines remaining gaps and opportunities on how to best scale up efforts to meet the current EU policy framework’s 2030 objectives. It provides ideas for how the new EU Restoration Plan could be operationalised through concrete tools, measures and strategies to allow Member States to scale up their efforts, while complementing existing policies and contributing to the broader European Green Deal agenda.

Think2030 policy paper by the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) and the Ecologic Institute. Erik Gerritsen, Lisa Kopsieker (Institute for European Environmental Policy), Sandra Naumann, Lina Röschel, McKenna Davis (Ecologic Institute)

Gerritsen, Erik & Kopsieker, Lisa & Naumann, Sandra & Röschel, Lina & Davis, Mckenna. (2021). Using nature-based solutions to foster synergies between biodiversity and climate: Missed chances and new opportunities for a sustainable future..

This paper is a policy paper written as part of  Think 2030, an evidence-based, non-partisan platform of leading policy experts from European think tanks, civil society, the private sector and local authorities.