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Climate Change


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 we do

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

LIFE Multi Peat

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 →

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 →

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 →

Hornbill in Hutan Harapan, Indonesia - photo: Tom Kirschey / NABU

Hutan Harapan

Indonesia: Restoring forests for future needs

Hutan Harapan (Indonesian: forest of hope) is a tropical secondary lowland forest in Sumatra, Indonesia, and one of our most precious conservation and restoration programs. The forest represents about one fifth of all remaining lowland forest on Sumatra. more →

Mangroves and their ecosystem services are indispensable for Indonesia/'s coastal communities. - photo: Burung Indonesia/ Dian Kusdini

Mangrove conservation in Indonesia

Southeast Asia’s natural coast guards need our help

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 →

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 →

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 - Foto: 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

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 consortium aims at structuring the up to now non-commercialised garden coffee value chain. more →

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Gewittersturm - Foto: Helge May

Climate change affects our natural world

Earth‘s future is challenged by a new human-produced threat

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 →

Glaciers in Peru - photo: Ulf Sieberg

Climate change – What is it about?

Humans and their impact on ecosystem services

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 →

MSC entwickelt bereits umweltverträgliche Antriebe. - Foto: unsplash/Claudio Schwarz

NABU cruise ship ranking 2020

Industry not on track for climate protection

The majority of the cruise industry is far from meeting the requirements of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. That is the result of the NABU cruise ranking 2020 that questioned the 18 largest providers on the European market. more →

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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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