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Watering Resilience: Case Studies for Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation in Action
Evan Jeffries & Richard Lee, WWF
Lives and livelihoods are being lost, communities devastated, and food production, economies and development goals undermined. Global heating is also accelerating the loss of nature – and vice versa. Deeply intertwined, the worsening climate and biodiversity crises threaten everyone’s future.
Climate and weather-related disasters have increased by 40 per cent over the last twenty years, with the planet’s most vulnerable communities being hit hardest of all. Of more than 400,000 people killed in climate-related disasters over the last decade, nine out of ten victims have been from the developing world. But nowhere is immune. And everywhere, climate change impacts will worsen. Overall, between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause around 250,000 additional deaths per year. Countries on every continent are grappling with increasingly frequent and increasingly extreme weather events. In 2024 alone – likely to be the hottest year on record – the world has witnessed historic droughts from the Amazon to southern Africa along with catastrophic floods from the southeastern US to Europe and the Mekong.
Read the full report here.
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