Recommendations
- Improve regional institutions and national policy audiences’ understanding of the role of marine and coastal Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in enhancing climate resilience.
- Provide a stronger evidence base to support the inclusion of marine and coastal EbA in national climate policies and strategies.
- Fully integrate EbA into national and sectoral policies, as well as budgetary and regulatory frameworks of climate change response measures.
- Enhance the emphasis on marine and coastal EbA in Nationally Determined Contributions updated by the 2020 deadline specified by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
- Increase knowledge and action within the policy community and the private sector around opportunities for innovative financing and investment to support marine and coastal EbA.
- Promote peer learning and share national and regional EbA best practices.
- Equip community-based organisations with the skills and information to actively participate in EbA policy and project design and implementation. (click on ‘download’ button situated top right of landing page).
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