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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field
… About IUCN IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our … fuel, construction material, clean water and air, and protection from natural hazards. Ecosystems, however, are … have shown significant changes in ecosystem and species distributions, principally due to increasing …
World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 2: Five wetlands that help us cope with extreme weather events
… waters. Their roots bind the shoreline and each kilometer of mangrove forest can reduce a storm surge by 50cm, blunting … of tiny coral polyps. Home to a quarter of all marine species, and providers of eco-tourism livelihoods, coral reefs also act as offshore wave barriers. This protection from extreme events is worth up to $33,556 per …