EVALUATION OF THE GEF SUPPORT FOR NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS Issued on 2025 by GEF-IEO

Nature-based solutions (NbS)1 represent an overarching concept that provides approaches to simultaneously tackle the interconnected challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change while offering social and economic co-benefits (table 1). These integrated and cross-cutting elements of NbS align with the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) mandate to address multiple environmental issues and deliver global environmental benefits (GEBs). They enable a more systematic approach to implementing low-regret solutions and minimizing tradeoffs through enhanced synergies. NbS interventions have the potential to contribute to GEF performance across multiple dimensions, including biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and mitigation, human well-being, and synergy building across sectors, policies, and practices.