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Backgrounder - Nature-based solutions or the ecosystem approach? - A debate over terminology risks distracting

18 May 2021

• These will take place in the run up to Here, we gauge how far the two concepts differ the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15), The targets of the emerging post-2020 Framework and threatens to keep doing so. [...] But some IMPORTANT? Indigenous Peoples and local communities Common ground and have expressed concern at the use of this incompatibilities In February 2020, the second term (see ‘Southern perspectives’, overleaf), meeting of the Open-ended Working The ecosystem approach’s core aim is as have a number of negotiators. [...] Negotiators Group on the post-2020 Global the conservation of ecosystem structure point out that the Convention on Biological Biodiversity Framework spent and functioning, in order to maintain Diversity has already endorsed the significant time discussing whether ecosystem services. [...] By 2030, ensure that nature- Significantly, the principles advocate based solutions and the ecosystem approach SOUTHERN decentralisation of management to the contribute to the regulation of air quality, PERSPECTIVES lowest appropriate level. [...] Indigenous worldviews, in which perhaps more ambitious in its focus on However, it will be important to ensure that people and nature — or biodiversity mainstreaming and policy coherence as well some of the key principles of the ecosystem and culture — are inextricably linked as on practical implementation, whereas the approach, which are weaker in the NbS and inter-dependent.
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