Last year's UN report highlighted the urgent need to employ a range of measures to limit global warming, while meeting rising global energy demand. This could include the protection and restoration of natural ecosystems such as forests, grasslands and wetlands. Nature-based solutions aim to protect, transform or restore land allowing nature to absorb more CO2 emissions from the atmosphere. Between now and 2030, they could provide over a third of the climate mitigation needed to limit warming to below 2?C. Reaching that outcome is difficult, in part because the prospects for nature-based solutions are uncertain. A panel of experts will discuss the role of nature in tackling climate change. Panelists include: o Ruth DeFries, University Professor; Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology o Dirk Forrister, CEO & President of the International Emissions Trading Association o Michelle Manion, Lead Economist at the World Resources Institute o Todd Stevens, Executive Director, Conservation Science and Solutions at the Wildlife Conservation Society o Maarten Wetselaar, Director, Integrated Gas and New Energies at Royal Dutch Shell o Jason Bordoff, Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy (moderator)
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