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There's definitely greater momentum

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in terms of recognizing that
you have to work with nature

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to address the climate
crisis, the water crisis,

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the food crisis.

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But just what are nature-based solutions

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and how do they work?

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- Yeah, this word has
(laughs) come out of nowhere

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and taken the world over.

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I think it's worth recognizing

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that the NbS, or the
nature-based solutions, word

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really came through the COP system

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to address mitigation issues,

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to deal with those solutions
that we could employ

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that would help bring us to 1.5

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sucking carbon out of the
environment, et cetera.

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But of course, there's
another side to that

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that's a resilience side.

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And the nature-based solutions

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in restoration and protection

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has been something that's been in my world

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for many, many years,

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ecosystem-based adaptation or restoration.

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But NbS as a tool of thinking

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about how can you work with nature

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or build back with nature

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to absorb the impacts of a changing world.

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And that could be things
like wetland restoration,

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aquifer recharge, river
restoration, mangrove restoration.

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There's so many different
tools at our disposal

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in building back with nature.

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And of course, there's
an affordability to it

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that is cheaper than gray infrastructure.

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That's not to say that gray infrastructure

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isn't going to be needed,

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but I think there's also a realization

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of the limits of gray infrastructure,

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and in fact, that in many places,

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gray infrastructure is
either failing or fading

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or just not able to do the job

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the way that an absorbing
nature and ecosystem can.