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  2. Climate change
  • Climate Change
  • Kafa Climate Project
  • LIFE Peat Carbon
  • Paludiculture meets peatland protection
  • Peatlands, climate and people: A conversation for a greener future
  • Climate change – What is it about?
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Climate Change


Climate change and biodiversity loss are the most pressing challenges to humanity. More and more people begin to realize they are both sides of the same coin. NABU stands with science and its conclusion that climate change is mostly anthropogenic (= man-made).

A major impact on climate is the use of fossil fuels. NABU demands and supports all efforts to reach a net-zero carbon economy globally. To achieve this, emissions from land-use, deforestation and peatland drainage must be reduced rapidly down to zero. This requires close cooperation with industry, electricity production and transport sectors.

But phasing out fossil fuel use alone is not sufficient. Dysfunctional ecosystems need to be restored in order to bring back all regulatory ecosystem functions. One of particular importance is the net carbon sink quality some ecosystems possess. In its international programme, NABU helps mitigating climate change by restoring and protecting these ecosystems. They include peatlands and tropical forests on a landscape scale.

And lastly, helping humans and nature adapt to climate change is also an important part of NABU’s activities.

Browse our climate change programmes below.


our projects

An aerial shot of the peatlands in the Slowinski National Park, Poland - photo: Volker Gehrmann

LIFE Multi Peat

This project restores and manages peatlands in five European countries

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 hectare. The project is being implemented in Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland and Germany. more →

Mantelaffen im Blätterdach - Foto: ondrejprosicky - stock.adobe.com

ForestConnect

Forest landscapes for securing climate and ecosystem resilience

Fragmentation and degradation are threatening Ethiopia's diverse forest landscapes and thus the country's biodiversity and food security. In Southwest Ethiopia, NABU and its partners are therefore implementing action plans to restore the precious forests. more →

Hornbills in Indonesia. - photo: feathercollector/ stock.adobe.com

Hutan Harapan

Protecting and restoring forests for future needs

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 →

Latvia Sudas Zviedru purvs - photo: Mara Pakalne

LIFE Peat Carbon

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 →

Marsh marigolds in a wet meadow near the Lower Havel - photo: NABU / Klemens Karkow

Good grounds for nature conservation

Project: Tax incentives for voluntary nature conservation

What are the sources of money for conservation on private land? In Germany, mainly public funding. Other models exist in the USA and South Africa. The project “Good grounds for nature conservation” asks how to implement tax relief for voluntary conservation. more →

Sunset over Madiesenu Mire in Augstroze, Latvia - photo: Mara Pakalne

LIFE Peat Restore

Restoring peatlands, sequestering carbon

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 →

Climate Smart Agriculture - photo: Nature Tanzania

AfriEvolve

Capacity development for green NGOs in Africa

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 →

Pflänzchen wächst aus Münzen - Foto: unsplash/Micheile Henderson

Sustainable finance

How do we finance nature and climate protection?

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 →

Gorontalo - photo: Barend van Gemerden / Vogelbescherming NL

Climate and forest protection in Gorontalo

Conservation of a biodiversity hotspot

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 →

Wild coffee beans.

Coffee-novation

Green diversification of Ethiopia’s garden coffee value chain

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 →

Facts & figures

Peatland protection must be ensured - photo: Adobe Stock / Jens Ottoson
Protect wetlands in Europe

Conserving and restoring peatlands is essential for the protection of climate and vulnerable species. That’s why NABU works throughout Europe to restore these special ecosystems, and advocates for better peatland policies on the state, federal and EU level. more →

Young scientists probing wetlands - photo: Tom Barrett / Broads Authority
Paludiculture meets peatland protection

Most peatlands in Europe are used for forestry and agriculture. They emit a lot of CO₂. By harmonising nature conservation, agricultural and economical efforts, we can turn these areas back into natural climate protectors. To achieve this, wet farming is key. more →

Cruise ship in a Norwegian fjord - photo: Angelica Lambertin
NABU Cruise Ranking 2023

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 →

wetland and climate

Peatland protection must be ensured - photo: Adobe Stock / Jens Ottoson

Protect wetlands in Europe

Intact peatlands are essential for the protection of climate and biodiversity. NABU works internationally to restore these vital ecosystems.

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Malachite Kingfisher in Ethiopia - photo: Bruno D/'Amicis

Biodiversity

Ecosystem functioning needs to be seen as a global task. Therefore, NABU is active in 36 biodiversity hotspots and beyond.

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Wild coffee harvest - Photo: Angelika Berndt

Sustainable Regional Development

Poor people are often highly dependent on functioning ecosystems and ecosystem services for food, construction materials and energy, but might unwillingly overexploit these limited resources. As water levels drop, microclimates change and resources become scarcer poverty and food insecurity are in turn enforced. Economic development is often promoted as an answer to these problems – but it rarely is.

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