Nature (and people!)-based solutions

Highlights:

  • The contrasted nature of the RESCCUE activities and their - sometimes not so obvious - link to climate change required a clarification of the project approach, which is based on vulnerability reduction and “adaptation-relevant” activities implementation.
  • This approach has been validated by the usefulness of what has been achieved. The tools deployed to define and assess the project's contribution to adaptation have met with mixed success.
  • The project never had to choose, in practice, between nature-based solutions (NbS) and "hard" solutions. In the particular context of the project's pilot sites, the social process that is at the heart of NbS implementation seems to clearly outweigh a more technical approach, to the point where NbS can be requalified for nature- and people-based solutions.
  • The project contributed to two international initiatives on oceans and climate change. Three scientific articles were published: one by Science prior to COP21 on contrasted futures for ocean and society, another one by Nature Climate Change on the implications of the Paris agreement for the ocean, and a last one in Frontiers in Marine Science on ocean solutions.
  • The low use of climate science in RESCCUE raises important questions that can only be addressed through enhanced collaboration between development and scientific stakeholders.

A synthesis summarizes how climate change was addressed in RESCCUE.

Coral reef in Vatu-i-Ra, Fidji
Coral reef in Vatu-i-Ra, Fidji
Restoring mangroves in Kadavu, Fidji
Restoring mangroves in Kadavu, Fidji
Publications
Bilan du projet RESCCUE en province Nord de Nouvelle-Calédonie
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La zone côtière Nord-Est de Nouvelle-Calédonie à l’épreuve du changement climatique
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Etat initial du site pilote de la zone côtière Nord-Est, Province Nord, Nouvelle-Calédonie
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Impacts du changement climatique sur le site pilote de la zone côtière Nord-Est, Province Nord, Nouvelle-Calédonie
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Rapport final de mise en œuvre du projet RESCCUE en province Sud de Nouvelle-Caledonie
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Le Grand Sud calédonien à l’épreuve du changement climatique
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Impacts du changement climatique sur le site pilote du Grand Sud, Province-Sud, Nouvelle-Calédonie
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Etat initial du site pilote du Grand Sud, Province-Sud, Nouvelle-Calédonie
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Final project report: Ra and Kadavu provinces, Fiji
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Climate change impacts in Ra and Kadavu Provinces, Fiji
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Initial Diagnosis of the Kadavu Province, Fiji
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Initial diagnosis of the Ra Province pilot site, Fiji
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Final project report : North Efate, Vanuatu
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Climate change impacts in North Efate, Vanuatu
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Initial Diagnosis of the North Efate pilot site, Vanuatu
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Rapport final du projet RESCCUE en Polynesie française
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Vulnérabilité des sites pilotes des Gambier et de Mooréa aux effets du changement climatique
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Etat initial de la baie de ’Opunohu - Ile de Mooréa - Polynésie française
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Etat initial du site pilote de Mangareva - Archipel des gambier - Polynésie française
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The RESCCUE A pproach
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Climate change in the RESCCUE project
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