Tracking Progress on the Integration of Nature-based Solutions and Ecosystem-based Adaptation in National Adaptation Plan Processes

This is the second synthesis report developed by the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network that assesses the extent to which countries have integrated nature-based solutions (NbS), ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA), and biodiversity considerations into their NAP documents. With a larger sample size than the first review in 2020 and the opportunity to leverage the outcomes of the first global stocktake under the Paris Agreement, as well as the renewal of countries’ biodiversity and conservation commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the NAP Global Network has updated analysis on NbS and/or EbA integration in NAPs with new methodologies for review and renewed insights for the NAP process.

Its findings are based on a desk-based review of 57 multi-sector NAP documents submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as of July 31, 2024. The review focused on the following key aspects:

• references to EbA, NbS, ecosystem-based approaches, ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction, ecosystem management, and natural infrastructure;
• the inclusion of ecosystems and biodiversity within climate risk assessment sections and the inclusion of types of ecosystems identified as vulnerable;
• references to ecosystem-based guiding principles and the inclusion of ecosystems as a stand-alone priority sector within the NAP;
• references to the country’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP), developed under the CBD, and to synergies and alignment opportunities between the NAP and NBSAP;
• types of EbA/NbS measures identified in NAPs.

Publisher: International Institute for Sustainable Development