Cooperation on Nature-based Solutions for Adaptation in the basins of lakes, rivers and aquifers

Climate change primarily affects water with unpredictable rainfall patterns, aquatic ecosystems degradation, altered river flows, sea level rise-induced salinization of coastal groundwater, more frequent and intense floods and droughts. Water-related disasters represent about 90% of all natural disasters. Ecosystem-based Adaptation addresses this issue with Nature-based Solutions (NbS). It uses biodiversity and ecosystem services to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change. As water flows and doesn’t stop at borders, this approach should be implemented through cooperation at the transboundary scale of the basins. Through case studies from around the world, the audience will be invited to question conventional climate change solutions and the associated risks of maladaptation, to explore the range of “no-regret” Nature-based Solutions mobilized and the interest to carry out this approach across borders at the scale of the basins of lakes, rivers and aquifers.