Natural Climate Solutions are Nature-based Solutions addressing climate change.
Natural climate solutions (NCS), include actions that protect healthy ecosystem, improve the management of working lands, and restore all types of land and coastal ecosystem; they can provide around 30% of the emissions reductions needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C by 2030. In addition, they provide many socio-economic and environmental benefits, such as the preservation and restoration of biodiversity, the provision of ecosystem services and supporting sustainable livelihoods. But despite their vast potential, NCS attract very little public and private investment.
The NCS Alliance (NCSA) has been established to convey the voice of businesses, NGOs and solution providers on the need to mobilize a high-integrity demand for high-quality NCS. The NCS Alliance focuses on identifying opportunities and barriers to investment in the NCS voluntary carbon market and also serves as a forum for knowledge sharing and technical capacity building to ensure natural climate solutions reach their full potential in abating climate change.
1. The climate crisis demands business leadership. Counterbalance your annual emissions by purchasing high-quality NCS carbon credits. Read Natural Climate Solutions and the Voluntary Carbon Market: A Guide for C-suite Executives and watch this video.
2. Develop a procurement strategy to source high-quality NCS credits and avoid the risks of low-quality purchases. Read A Buyer’s Guide to Natural Climate Solutions Carbon Credits, watch this video and hear from businesses who are NCS Leaders.
3. Visit the NCS Procurement Hub for details on the NCS credit procurement process.
4. The NCSA Policy Tracker highlights key policies shaping the voluntary carbon market, organised by region and regularly updated. NCSA members can access the tracker; contact us if you would like access.
5. NCS credits help mitigate climate change, promote biodiversity, and support sustainable development for local communities and Indigenous Peoples. Read NCS in Action and watch this video.
6. Decode the acronyms in Natural Climate Solutions and voluntary carbon credits by watching this video.
NCS interventions are diverse – spanning the protection and conservation, sustainable management and restoration of ecosystems across geographies and socio-economic contexts. These characteristics are important to understand as they ultimately influence the potential biodiversity gains and benefits to people that projects and programs can achieve.
NCS in Action are examples of a diverse range of NCS projects that deliver carbon credits through the protection, improved management and restoration of nature.
