Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) Policy Tracker. An AI approach for policy-making for enabling NBS worldwide

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Business and biodiversity basics Integrating biodiversity into a business context Nature conservation and restoration

Without nature, current global average temperatures would have already exceeded the 1.5°C threshold. Nature-based solutions (NBS) can achieve more than a third of the greenhouse gas reductions needed by 2030 to meet the Paris climate goal, while measures to protect, restore and manage nature have the potential to create 395 million jobs over the next decade.

However, for the world to meet its climate change, biodiversity and land degradation targets, investment in NBS needs to triple by 2030 and quadruple by 2050. Governments can encourage private sector investment by designing policies that unlock the value of natural solutions.

The Nature-Based Solutions Policy Tracker is the first to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify legislation and investment plans for nature-based solutions (NBS), and assess their effectiveness.

Launched by Nature4Climate and Metabolic, the tool is designed to serve as the world's largest database of public policies supporting nature, helping governments and investors increase ambition and awareness of nature's potential to address the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis more effectively.

Analysis of more than 220 policies from 80 countries by the NBS Policy Tracker reveals that the most common approach to solutions was coastal restoration, mentioned in 13.6% of policies, followed by combating deforestation (11.4%), community-led conservation (10.8%) and reforestation (10.4%).