Most roadmaps to zero-carbon futures focus on clean-energy technologies. This one focuses on nature-based solutions to climate change. It was issued by the White House following President Biden’s executive order on restoring forests, protecting coasts and marine ecosystems, reducing flooding, protecting biodiversity, and taking other nature-based steps to address climate change and its impacts. The roadmaps contains “compelling evidence that nature-based solutions are innovative, and that they are highly complementary to necessary technological solutions.” It makes the point that “Nature-based solutions and technology can be powerful allies” and “the climate crisis demands that we deploy all available, proven, science- and evidence-based solutions.”

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