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Nature-based Solutions

As the climate crisis deepens, we are becoming more aware of just how badly we have failed to respect our most precious asset: nature. We depend entirely on it for our food, our air, our water and our shelter, and yet, we have been neglecting and exploiting nature for decades, even centuries. Nature-based solutions (NbS) promise to redress the balance by restoring habitats and ecosystems.

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Alice Ritchie

Advantage champion

Alice Ritchie is the Climate Change and Water Lead at the leading membership organisation for farmers and landowners in the UK, representing 30,000 members who own or manage 10 million acres – over half the rural land in England and Wales. She advises members and the UK and Welsh governments on reaching net-zero, flood and drought resilience, nature-based solutions and water management and quality, influencing how these topics fit with post-Brexit agriculture policy. Alice previously worked for the Ministry for Primary Industries in New Zealand on climate change, agriculture and forestry and is in the final year of an M. Sc in Global Food Security from the University of Edinburgh.

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Protect and restore – both approaches are required for New Zealand indigenous forests

Taking personal action on climate change is one of the best defences against a sense…
March 5, 2024

Tackling two crises with one Nature-based Solution

The world is currently experiencing twin crises: The climate crisis, and its impacts on planetary…
February 26, 2024

The Pure Advantage of native forests

Our native forests are temperate rainforests that are perfectly adapted to our mild and moist…
February 16, 2024

Bridging the gap between the wisdom of our elders and the innovation of our youth

Sophie Handford is an activist and politician chairing the Strategy, Operations & Finance Committee of…
December 17, 2023

Will New Zealand be laughed at or celebrated at COP28?

New Zealand’s approach at previous COPs has underwhelmed, earning us successive “fossil” awards. These ironically…
November 30, 2023

Why indigenous reforestation is a Treaty right – and the right thing to do

Manu Caddie (Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngāti Hauā) is a biotechnology entrepreneur focused on truly sustainable land…
October 25, 2023

New Zealand is currently on track for catastrophic runaway climate change: A call to arms

Both major political parties have acknowledged that climate change is the greatest challenge of our…
October 10, 2023

Seizing the moment for New Zealand’s native forests

I returned to the UK in early August, after another wonderfully enjoyable visit to Aotearoa…
October 5, 2023

Climate change – enough with the excuses

New Zealand’s response to climate change is: “Yeah but…” Yeah but, we are too small…
September 10, 2023

Whio rescue shows why we should abandon the myth of reserves

Ahead of the United Nations biodiversity summit in Montreal, Prof David Norton argues for a…
November 14, 2022

Carbon mining – short term gain, long term pain

There is a new risk to you – the taxpayer – from the government’s recent…
September 7, 2022

Interwoven Land Use: Values and Principles

The ETS is proving effective in helping New Zealand reduce its net carbon emissions in…
March 23, 2021

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