The Role of Biodiversity in Ecosystem-based Adaptation(EbA)
EbA and Biodiversity In response, ecosystem-based adaptation, or EbA has emerged as a cost-effective, all-encompassing approach that harnesses biodiversity and ecosystem services to enable climate adaptation. EbA caters to the urgency caused due to the knock-on effects of climate change that gravely threaten the interactions and overall stability of nature and its diversity. In line with this, the Global Risks Report 2022 identifies “climate action failure”, “extreme weather events”, and “biodiversity loss” as the top three most severe risks over the next decade. At the same time, the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has on multiple occasions propounded biodiversity management as a course of action for both climate mitigation and adaptation. The two-way links that run between climate change and Biodiversity offer a good leverage point for EbA approaches to address the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss while accruing multiple pronounced benefits that support the natural flow of ecosystems. EbA shifts the focus from the “importance” and “need” to protect Biodiversity to its occupying the central “role” in a changing climate. In other words, the approach taps into the biological variability in an attempt to capture a “coherent conservation adaptation” agenda.
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