FEBA Member Meeting

ANNUAL MEETING

ADVANCING AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING AND UPTAKE OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR ADAPTATION

December 11, 2024

AGENDA

AUDIENCE

REMINDERS

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OPENING REMARKS

Ali Raza Rizvi

Head of Climate Change and Energy Transition, IUCN

OPENING REMARKS

Nina Alsen

Senior Policy Officer, German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV)

FEBA Secretariat �Updates�

Number 10!

EbA Knowledge Day 2024

Starting Jan 2025

Newsletter

Revamped

New Website

New staff

Secretariat

Ali Raza Rizvi�Secretariat Head

Adriana Vidal�Senior Policy Advisor

Greg Davies-Jones�Programme Officer

Rose Washington�Programme Officer

Visit the new friendsofeba.com!

FEBA 2015 - 2024

FEBA has hosted multiple expert working groups that facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing among diverse organizations, organised high-level events & technical workshops, and produced extensive library of knowledge products, including position papers & technical publications.

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9+

120+

Events

45+

Knowledge Products

WGs

FEBA Working Group & Collaborations Updates

NbS in Humanitarian �Contexts

Goal of this cross-network working group is to convene stakeholders across FEBA, the Environment and Humanitarian Action Network (EHAN) and the Partnership for Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR) networks to elevate Nature-based Solutions and environmental safeguarding as a core component and strategy within humanitarian aid and development.

New Working Group

Why does it matter?

• For the past 60 years, at least 40% of conflicts within countries have been linked to natural resources
• These resource-related conflicts are twice as likely to reignite
• Climate Change and biodiversity loss act as threat multipliers

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What is the objective?

The aim of this Working Group is to explore the intersection of climate, nature, and peace. It seeks to strengthen synergies within this nexus and understand how EbA can effectively contribute to peace.

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What are potential directions?

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What is next?

1. Scoping phase
2. Terms of Reference Development
3. Concept Development

Nature for Peace

Launch of the FEBA Working Group on Psychological Resilience and NbS/EbA (PR&EbA)

Proposed Scope of Work and Objectives

• Survey members as to perceptions of gaps and needs in incorporating psychological resilience into their work
• Review research, case studies, and survey and other user input to characterize psychological resilience methods and aims that can contribute to and benefit from accelerating NbS/EbA
• Complete a Guidance Report that summarizes those findings, strategies for integrating psychological resilience across NbS/EbA efforts, the tools, methods, and measures to apply them,and consensus priority use cases
• Engage with and recruit potential adopters of these use case priorities

Issue brief found here - please provide feedback before the end of the year

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Terms of Reference - Summary scope, rationale, and objectives. Seeking interested FEBA members to launch in early 2025

5-MINUTE BREAK

BREAKOUT Groups

DISCUSSION

Each group will start with brief member updates. Consecutively, the groups will discuss objectives and how FEBA can support the achievement of these. Nominate a rapporteur within your group to present the group’s key points later in the plenary.

15:50 - 16:30 (40 Minutes)

ITEMS

A year in review: Member Updates

(3 mins. each)

Identify priority policy and implementation objectives on the road to UNFCCC COP 30

Identify ways in which FEBA activities and outputs can support achieving these goals?

Advance awareness, understanding, and uptake of nature-based solutions in adaptation and resilience efforts around the world.

FEBA Role, Key Functions & Tools

Role

(WHO)

Mandate

(WHY)

Key functions

(WHAT)

Tools

(HOW)

Success

Indicators

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Caribbean Biodiversity Fund key achievements and milestones 2024

Friends of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (FEBA) Annual Meeting, 11 Dec 2024

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Ulrike Krauss

Climate Change Program Manager, CBF

Photo: © CLEAR Caribbean

Photo © CLEAR Caribbean

Priority Ecosystems�

2024 Highlights in Ecosystem-based Adaptation

EbA Facility Achievements

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Peer-to-peer knowledge exchange: A strategy for long-term sustainability and collaboration

• Caribbean Coral Health Forum (CCHF) Finding solutions, sharing knowledge

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• COP16 side event Boosting Coral Health: Caribbean Strategies for Climate Resilience

5^th Call for Proposals (5CfP)

Impact/KPIs as at June 2024

34 projects across

11 countries;

9 successfully closed out

Advancing EbA for biodiversity and communities.

• Launched 8 Oct 2024�Closes 17 Dec 2024;�Approx. award date 29 Jul 2025
• Grants (USD): 1-3M (large) 400K-1M (med)
• ENG, FR and SP concept notes
• Apply online at CBF’s website

CBF at COP29: Leveraging science, partnerships, and finance

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• Key Contributions
• Science, Partnerships, and Climate Finance for Resilient Seascapes, IUCN event
• Resilience & Biodiversity: Innovative Approaches from Conservation to Development, official side event with Canadian Foodgrains Bank

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• CBF’s Key Message
• EbA reduces/minimizes Loss and Damage.
• Advocacy: We encourage governments to integrate EbA into their programmatic budgets as the most cost-effective and preventative climate adaptation strategy.

CI’S RECENT ADAPTATION WORK

• New projects (selection)
• Global EbA Fund - Assessing the global role of Ecosystem-based adaptation in helping people adapt to climate change
• KIWA - Resilient Pacific Communities through Ecosystem-based Reef and Mangrove Restoration, Management and Sustainable Livelihoods

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• New scientific publications  (selection)
• Nature-based solutions are essential for climate and health action (The Lancet)
• Grassland restoration impacts human-wildlife and social conflicts in the Chyulu Hills, Kenya (accepted in Frontiers in Environmental Science-Interdisciplinary Climate Studies)
• AI study on coastal erosion and mud banks in Guyana

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• New policy support  
• CI-TNC-F&F-ZSL submission to UNFCCC’s Global Goal on Adaptation
• Policy Brief on Green-Gray Infrastructure: Guidance for Including Coastal Green-Gray Infrastructure in NDCs

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conservation.org/EbA

���contact: Giacomo Fedele, gfedele@conservation.org

Camila Donatti, Rod Brown, Shira Lyss-Loren

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Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and �Agriculture through NDCs and NAPs�(SCALA)

FEBA Member activities updates

11 December 2024

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Julia Wolf, Maria Haensel, Catarina Angioni, Sibyl Nelson

FAO

SCALA overview 2024

UNFCCC

Strengthening the evidence base

Enhancing governance mechanisms

Promoting private sector engagement & investment

12 FAO-UNDP Country Teams support country-led implementation of NDCs and NAPs (Ministries of Agriculture, Environment,

Finance & Planning)

to enable and accelerate transformative climate action in agrifood systems

Technical support and country, regional exchanges

Informing international processes and sharing knowledge

NDCs

NAPs

BTR

GGA

Agri-Nego

•Trained over 1500 specialists

• Working with over 40 national ag & CC institutions

• Additional funding and extension for SCALA announced by IKI at COP29
• SCALA+ will operate in 12 core countries and will:
• Enhance the partnership model
• Create stronger alignment between climate, biodiversity and agrifood priorities
• Support de-risking of successful practices and attract investment
• Increase inclusivity and resilience
• Ensure long-term sustainability
• Continued resource mobilization with UNDP to expand reach to �up to 50 countries

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Entering a new phase: SCALA+ (2025-28)

Locally led, ecosystems-based adaptation

CREDIT: © TIMUR JACK-KADIOGLU / MWAMBAO COASTAL COMMUNITY NETWORK

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Contact: Annamaria Lehoczky PhD, Annamaria.Lehoczky@fauna-flora.org

Scaling adaptation work across our conservation portfolio, focusing on

• organizational capacity building on climate change and ecosystem-based adaptation
• and supporting 3 flagship projects across the entire adaptation cycle (Nicaragua, Uganda, Cabo Verde – São Tomé & Príncipe)

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Developing an integrated EbA-LLA assessment tool

• building on the EbA Framework and the Principles for Locally Led Adaptation developed by a consortium led by IIED, WRI and GCA
• to help design more effective projects and evidence progress on these approaches
• presented preliminary results of piloting the tool at COP29, we will be sharing lessons learnt soon

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Advocacy on climate adaptation

• Contributed to guidance on adaptation in Nature4Climate coalition’s updated Guide for including Nature in NDCs 
• Joint submission to the UNFCCC Global Goal on Adaptation process (CI-TNC-F&F-ZSL)

GIZ FEBA Members Update, December 2024 Sylvia Wicander sylvia.wicander@giz.de

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Available in English, French and Spanish

Forthcoming publication:

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Moving towards synergies between biodiversity and climate change: Improving the alignment between NBSAP and NDC Implementation

Updated thematic papers:

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Synergies Between Biodiversity and Climate Policy Frameworks – A Series of Thematic Papers

Scaling-up Ecosystem based Adaptation (EbA) Measures in rural Latin America (EbA LAC)

2021-2026

Strengthen capacities of key actors for scaling- up

Access to funds and financing mechanisms for vulnerable people

Implementing cost-effective and gender sensitive EbA measures

Creating an enabling environment, strengthening multi-level governance

4 National Plans

with EbA focus

> 3,000 ha

implemented with gender responsive EbA actions

> 4000

people

supported through training on EbA

3.5 Mio EUR

leveraged finance for EbA actions

LOOKING FOR COLLABORATION

IN DEVELOPING

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• Guidance / capacity development material:
• Success factors for Scaling- up EbA
• Lessons-learned from Scaling-Up

Astrid.Michels@giz.de

Biodiversity loss and climate change are also a gender issue

Resilient Livestock

Sustainable finance for EbA

EbA in financial products and insurances

EbA in the financial sector

Instituto de Montaña

Key achievements on EbA in 2024�

Mirella Gallardo & Florencia Zapata

Instituto de Montaña

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FEBA Annual Meeting

Zoom, December 11, 2024

• Upscaling Mountain EbA: The Project “Resilient Puna: Ecosystem based Adaptation for sustainable High Andean communities and ecosystems in Peru” will reach 127 communities. IdM is one of the Executing Entities, in addition to GIZ, MIDAGRI, SERNANP and PROFONANPE.
• Policy instruments: Attending a request of the Peruvian Ministry of Environment and the National Water Authority, IdM elaborated the “Guide for the analysis and estimation of risk to the effects of climate change in river basins” based in GIZ, EURAC & UNU-EHS (2018).

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Instituto de Montaña

GIZ, EURAC & UNU-EHS (2018): Climate Risk Assessment for Ecosystem-based Adaptation – A guidebook for planners and practitioners. Bonn: GIZ.

• Yanacancha-Huaquis Cultural Landscape | WMF is a project that began in Panorama Solutions. It involves cultural and natural heritage conservation (material and immaterial), and it is in implementation.
• Harnessing nature-based solutions for economic recovery: A systematic review | PLOS Climate…various EbA cases in Peru contributed to the study. The evidence underscored the need to incorporate NbS in investment programs to concurrently address economic, environmental, and societal challenges.

Instituto de Montaña

EbA in Action:

Key Achievements of 2024 and the Outlook for 2025 and Beyond

Bhopal Pandeya

NbS Team, UNEP-WCMC

EbA Projects

Synthesising experience and lessons learned to raise awareness of possible benefits for communities, governments and the private sectors

Concluded in 2024

• Rexus Project (water-energy-food nexus)
• Nature in NAPs training course

Ongoing

• EbA Madagascar/Caribbean
• Network Nature+
• GCBC Ecuador (Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate)
• EbA in Agriculture in Viet Nam

Future outlook

• More M&E work (incl. national adaptation monitoring)
• Restoration and EbA
• Resilience of Nature-based Solutions

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EbA Opportunities for 2025 and Beyond!

• NbS/EbA for building green economies in fragile and conflict-affected regions (Examples: Conflict and climate crises in Somalia; other countries/regions)
• Make DRR/adaptation objectives explicit and include robust indicators​ (Example: Monitoring EbA in the Thailand water sector)
• Support governments to strengthen DRR in National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)
• Include ecosystem dependencies & risks in disaster risk and climate change vulnerability assessments
• Evaluate the full range of benefits and costs of NbS/EbA options – and do the same for other approaches (Example: urban ecosystem accounting approaches)

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Advance awareness, understanding, and uptake of nature-based solutions in adaptation and resilience efforts around the world.

FEBA Role, Key Functions & Tools

Role

(WHO)

Mandate

(WHY)

Key functions

(WHAT)

Tools

(HOW)

Success

Indicators

GROUP 1

Identify priority policy and implementation objectives on the road to UNFCCC COP 30

Identify ways FEBA can support achieving these goals (how do we make this happen)?

• Based on FEBA’s key functions and tools, how can FEBA best support your work?

→ Suggestions are welcome regarding current activities or new activities

• What are your key priorities for 2025 regarding EbA policy development and/or implementation?
• Forward looking & seeking collaboration

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Documentation table

GROUP 2

Identify priority policy and implementation objectives on the road to UNFCCC COP 30

Identify ways FEBA can support achieving these goals (how do we make this happen)?

• Based on FEBA’s key functions and tools, how can FEBA best support your work?
• Suggestions are welcome regarding current activities or new activities

• What are your key priorities for 2025 regarding EbA policy development and/or implementation?
• Forward looking & seeking collaboration

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Documentation table

GROUP 3

Identify priority policy and implementation objectives on the road to UNFCCC COP 30

Identify ways FEBA can support achieving these goals (how do we make this happen)?

• Based on FEBA’s key functions and tools, how can FEBA best support your work?
• Suggestions are welcome regarding current activities or new activities

• What are your key priorities for 2025 regarding EbA policy development and/or implementation?
• Forward looking & seeking collaboration

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Documentation table

PLENARY

Group Discussions Presentations

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CLOSING REMARKS

Ali Raza Rizvi

Head of Climate Change and Energy Transition, IUCN

THANK

YOU