At the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, the Egyptian COP Presidency launched the initiative 'Enhancing Nature-based Solutions for Accelerated Climate Transformation’ or in short, ENACT. This ambitious initiative, developed in collaboration with the Government of Germany and IUCN, builds a global partnership of state and non-state actors to accelerate collective action to address the interconnected global crises of climate change, land and ecosystem degradation, and biodiversity loss. The partnership:
Brings coherence to and strengthens collaboration between existing partnerships and initiatives working on different areas of NbS.
Amplifies and supports accelerated implementation of current and new partners’ NbS commitments through documenting, profiling, and promoting promising practices and success stories as well as challenges to be overcome.
Facilitates NbS policy dialogue to inform negotiations across the Rio Conventions.
Builds a united, collective narrative of the global value and impact of NbS, including through the publication of an annual State of Nature-based Solutions report for the COP Presidencies.
As one of ENACT’s Outputs, the partnership will publish its annual Nature-based Solutions report. The inaugural report – State of ENACT NbS Goals Report: Year One Roadmap - details a baseline of current knowledge on the ENACT NbS Goals and highlights ENACT partners’ success in applying NbS to key ENACT NbS workstreams.
As part of the official side-events of the 6th session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, this session will serve as the official launch of the State of ENACT NbS Goals Report: Year One Roadmap - highlighting the key outcomes of the annual ENACT report, together with the Partnership co-chairs Egypt and Germany.
Speakers (in order of appearance):
Dr Grethel Aguilar Rojas - Director General, IUCN
H.E Minster Dr Yasmine Fouad - Minister of the Environment, Arab Republic of Egypt
H.E. Minister Steffi Lemke - Minister of the Environment, Germany
Mr Stewart Maginnis - Deputy Director General – Programme, IUCN