What is a Nature-based Solution?

A Nature-based Solution is any action that conserves, restores, or improves the use or management of natural ecosystems while increasing carbon storage and/or avoiding greenhouse gas emissions that can be considered a “natural” climate solution.
Developing green infrastructure, including natural climate solutions, has become a focal point for government policy and spending to boost economies for post-pandemic recovery.

RPKLA offers nature-based solutions in the realms of Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity, read further below to learn more:

  • 57 USD Billion

    in water flooding damages averted by mangroves in China, India, Mexico, US and Viet Nam each year

  • One Third

    of climate mitigation needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement can be provided by Nature-based Solutions

  • 170 USD Billion

    estimated global benefits in ecosystem services from Nature-based Solutions focused on climate

  • RPKLA offers the following biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation solutions;

    • Elimination of high-maintenance lawns, which involves reducing the corresponding use of fossil-fuel-based fertilizers and fossil-fuel-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers

    • Increase diversity of native tree and plant species

    • Native plant gardens

    • Increase use of plant species pollinators rely on

    • Educational and Interpretative Signage

    • Reforestation

    • Urban Forestry

    • Parks and open spaces, which include trees and grasses that sequester carbon.

    • Habitat creation/restoration, which can increase the number of trees and plants in a landscape, remove invasive species, and improve the overall health of natural systems, and the amount of carbon stored in landscapes.

  • Green Infrastructure at RPKLA includes the elimination of high-maintenance lawns, which involves reducing the corresponding use of fossil-fuel-based fertilizers and fossil-fuel-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers. RPKLA offers the following green infrastructure solutions:

    • Green Streets

    • Green Roofs

    • Bioretention

    • Bioswales

    • Rain Gardens

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The direct benefits and ROI of Nature-based Solutions include:

  • Carbon sequestration

  • Reduction of air particulate matter

  • Stormwater runoff reduction

  • Reduction of hot summer temps

  • Improved habitat

  • Reduction of energy usage

  • Human health benefits