Investing in actions aimed at protection, restoration and the sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystems represents a good approach to maintaining critical ecosystem services and constitutes part of a common strategy for adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk reduction in the region  . These strategies also satisfy international forest and water conservation agendas in terms of optimising resources and solutions . Global conservation and sustainable development commitments, such as the Aichi Targets ), Sustainable Development Goals , the NDCs under the Paris Agreement and the New York Declaration on Forests, strongly rely on nature-based solutions  to achieve their objectives  . The COVID-19 outbreak also brought attention to the need to preserve tropical forests as a means of preventing spillover of viruses from wildlife to humans, with concerns over that risk in the Amazon . These represent an important opportunity for ecosystem-based adaptation  to be at the core of NbS for climate change, access finance and promote climate resilient development pathways in CSA.
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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