Partners with nature: how healthy ecosystem are helping the world's most vulnerable adapt to climate change

Abstract

Climate change is one of the greatest global threats. Scientists confidently predict that average global warming of 2°C or more will result in dangerous and irreversible effects on nature, people and the economy.10 The ultimate aim (Article 2) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (unfccc) 11 is to avoid dangerous climate change. It includes stabilising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases at a level and in a time frame that allows ecosystems to adapt naturally. The value and importance of ecosystems in tackling and responding to climate change, both in adaptation and mitigation, is therefore recognised inherently by the Convention.