Climate change and biodiversity loss are the most pressing challenges to humanity and people start to realize they are both sides of the same coin. NABU stands with science which has no doubt that climate change is mostly anthropogenic (man-made), and a major impact is the use of fossil fuels.
Along with industry, electricity production and transport sectors, emissions from the land-use, deforestation and peatland drainage must be reduced rapidly down to zero. NABU demands and supports all efforts to reach a net-zero-carbon economy globally. But phasing out fossil fuel use alone is not sufficient. Dysfunctional ecosystems additionally need to be restored in order to bring back all regulatory ecosystem functions including becoming a net carbon sink again.
In it’s international programme, NABU helps mitigating climate change by restoring and protecting ecosystems including peatlands and tropical forests on a landscape-scale. Likewise, helping humans and nature adapt to climate change is an important part of NABU’s activities.
What Europe needs? Wet peatlands! NABU is part of the international project LIFE Multi Peat that aims to rewet and manage degraded peatlands covering an area of 689 ha. The project is being implemented in Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland and Germany. more →
NABU and six African NGOs are setting up regional cluster networks for enhancing organisational development of green NGOs in Africa and supporting local farmers in adapting agricultural systems to climate change. more →
Hutan Harapan, the "forest of hope", is a tropical lowland forest in Sumatra, Indonesia, and one of our most precious conservation and restoration programmes. The forest is one of the last refuges for endangered species and provides countless ecosystem services. more →
This project, which is running until 2027, aims to reduce CO₂ emissions in project sites by the equivalent of 37.117 tons of CO₂ per year in Latvia and 3.500 tons of CO₂ equivalent per year in Finland. NABU is supporting the project with its expertise in peatland restoration and communications. more →
Mangroves and their ecosystem services are indispensable for Indonesia's coastal communities. However, the country experiences alarming rates of mangrove loss. In Sulawesi, we support mangrove conservation and identify areas suitable for restoration. more →
NABU is part of the LIFE Peat Restore project that aims to rewet degraded peatlands covering an area of 5,300 hectares in Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to restore their function as carbon sinks. more →
We continue to exploit our planet’s resources, and yet Earth’s ecological limits have already been exceeded. It is time to push for more sustainable finance to counteract the impacts of the climate and biodiversity crisis. more →
NABU and its Indonesian partner in the BirdLife network, Burung Indonesia, completed a project to protect tropical forests on the Indonesian island Sulawesi. The project was part of BirdLife’s “Forest of Hope Program” and located in the province of Gorontalo. more →
Kafa Biosphere Reserve is challenged by the lack of sustainable employment and innovation for green development and adaptation to the impacts of climate change. The project aims at structuring the up to now non-commercialised garden coffee value chain. more →
How does nature react to climate change? What options for adaptation do ecosystems and species actually have? How do shifts in habitats or ranges and seasonal rhythms affect nature? more →
When compared not only to the last century and the preceding millions of years today‘s climate has changed dramatically. Above all, it is extreme weather events as droughts, floods, heat waves and mild winters that we actually feel and see. more →
Rising greenhouse gas emissions and heavy air pollutions remain the gravest problems of the cruise ship industry. NABU's annual cruise ship ranking, presented on 28 June in Hamburg, delivers renewed evidence that change is needed. But hope is on the horizon. more →
