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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

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

Tackling two crises with one Nature-based Solution

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

The Pure Advantage of native forests

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

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

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

Will New Zealand be laughed at or celebrated at COP28?

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

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

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

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

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

Seizing the moment for New Zealand’s native forests

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

Climate change – enough with the excuses

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

Whio rescue shows why we should abandon the myth of reserves

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

Carbon mining – short term gain, long term pain

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

Interwoven Land Use: Values and Principles

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

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