Enhancing Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for Climate Transformation (ENACT)
The ENACT Partnership works to accelerate collective global efforts to address climate change, land and ecosystem degradation, and biodiversity loss through Nature-based Solutions (NbS).
The Partnership’s aims include to:
Bring coherence to and strengthen collaboration between existing partnerships and initiatives working on different areas of NbS.
Amplify and support accelerated implementation of current and new partners’ NbS commitments through documenting, profiling, and promoting promising practices and success stories as well as challenges to be overcome.
Facilitate NbS policy dialogue to inform negotiations across the Rio Conventions.
Build a united, collective narrative of the global value and impact of NbS, including through the publication of an annual State of NbS report for the COP Presidencies.
The ENACT partnership will also function as an enabler and accelerator of progress towards multilaterally established global targets, such as the UN Decade on Restoration, the proposed 30×30 target under the CBD Global Biodiversity Framework, and the G20 Global Initiative on Land Degradation under the UNCCD. ENACT will work in close alignment with the implementation of UNEP/EA.5/Res.5 and the upcoming intergovernmental consultations on:
compilation of examples of best practices in NbS.
assessment of proposals, criteria standards and guidelines to build a common understanding of NbS.
identification of financing options for NbS, particularly for developing countries.
ENACT will work in close alignment with the implementation of UNEP/EA.5/Res.5 and the upcoming intergovernmental consultations on (1) compilation of examples of best practices in NbS; (2) assessment of proposals, criteria standards and guidelines to build a common understanding of NbS; and (3) identification of financing options for NbS, particularly for developing countries.
The ENACT partnership (previously under the working title “Sharm el Sheikh Partnership for NbS”) was developed in a collaborative process, building on a stakeholder consultation workshop in Cairo in September 2022 that brought together over 60 participants. The draft concept note underwent open peer review.
