Background

As countries across Asia and the Pacific prepare their third round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs 3.0) and advance the formulation and implementation of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), there is growing recognition that Nature-based Solutions (NbS) offer a powerful and cost-effective pathway to achieve both climate mitigation and adaptation goals. By conserving, restoring and sustainably managing ecosystems - such as forests, wetlands, peatlands, and mangroves - countries can reduce emissions, enhance resilience, and generate co-benefits for biodiversity, health, water security, and livelihoods.

While many countries have included references to NbS in their NDCs and NAPs, significant gaps remain in translating these commitments into coherent, funded, and scalable actions. The transition from policy intent to implementation is often hindered by fragmentation across sectors, lack of integrated planning approaches, insufficient technical capacity, limited access to finance, and weak monitoring frameworks.
This third webinar in the series will focus on how countries can move from NbS as a policy concept to NbS as an operational approach embedded within climate action strategies. It will explore how NbS can act as the implementation mechanism for NDC and NAP priorities, and how integrated approaches—linking climate, biodiversity, disaster risk reduction, and development planning—can maximize impact and effectiveness.

The session will bring together policymakers, practitioners and technical experts to share real-world implementation experiences from Asia-Pacific countries, highlighting enabling institutional arrangements, multi-level governance, community-based action, public-private partnerships, and innovative financing mechanisms. It will also examine how aligning NDC and NAP processes through NbS can create synergies, strengthen coherence, and accelerate progress toward climate-resilient development.

Objectives

• Examine how NbS are being operationalized to deliver NDC and NAP priorities in this region.
• Share lessons on institutional, technical and financial mechanisms that facilitate NbS implementation across sectors and scales.
• Promote integrated planning approaches that align adaptation and mitigation efforts through ecosystems-based action.

Expected Outcomes

• Enhanced understanding of how NbS can function as an implementation vehicle for both NDCs and NAPs.
• Peer learning from countries demonstrating leadership in mainstreaming NbS into national and sub-national climate actions.
• Strengthened partnerships between governments, development partners, and civil society to support scaling of NbS.of enabling institutional, technical, and financial mechanisms for NbS implementation.