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Nature Based Solutions Financing▼

Nature offers scalable cost-effective solutions for protecting lives, enhancing livelihoods and economic and environmental investment performance in the region. However, insufficient funding and/or financing product mismatch is a major constraint. Conference will deliberate upon innovative financing solutions to these constraints.

Climate Hazards, Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate-Resilient Ecosystems▼

Extensive and intensive climate change-induced floods, droughts and heat waves are threatening life, livelihoods and economies, particularly in the Himalayas. Conference will deliberate upon locally suitable and cost-effective climate and livelihoods resilience enhancing NBS policies, technologies and practices.

River Basin Sustainability and Integrated Water Management▼

Global warming and climate change is posing increased risk to sustainable water resource and river basin development and management in the Himalayas. Conference will deliberate upon the state-of-the-art NBS to climate-change induced water and food insecurity challenges and risks in the Himalayas.

Wetland and Watershed Restoration▼

Loss and degradation of wetlands and watersheds is intensifying and accelerating adverse climate change impacts on life, livelihoods and economies in the region. Conference will bring together state-of-the-art NBS-enabled wetland and watershed restoration concepts and practices for enhanced climate-resilient ecosystems and livelihoods.

Future Geospatial Trends for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)▼

Emerging geospatial technologies such as Earth Observation, GeoAI, Digital Twins, UAVs, and spatial decision-support systems are transforming sustainable development planning and monitoring. The conference will explore innovative geospatial solutions that support climate resilience, ecosystem conservation, disaster risk reduction, and accelerated achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Himalayas.

Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) and Green Jobs▼

Natural climate Solutions (NCS) make use of forests, pastures, orchards, paddy lands to reduce and/or store global warming greenhouse gases (GHG) including carbon dioxide and methane. Conference will bring together national and international expertise and experience on how NCS can enhance climate resilience of region’s forest and agriculture ecosystems; generate green carbon businesses and jobs; and contribute to India’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) commitments, and India’s Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS).

Geo-AI, Remote Sensing and Digital Twin Systems▼

Historically, sustainable development planning, including NBS project planning, has faced scope, scale and implementation speed challenges. These have resulted in delayed implementation and delivery of benefits as well as cost overrun. Conference will showcase how digital technologies are being deployed to overcome these historical scope, scale and speed challenges.

International Experience and Perspectives on Mountain Ecosystem Sustainability▼

"World over NBS is being actively explored to address the climate resilience challenges of lives, livelihoods and economies. Given the climate change exposure, fragility and financial resource deficits of mountain ecosystem inhabitants, economies, and institutions, the conference will bring together national and international expertise and experience to help formulate a NBS-enabled climate resilience research, policy and action agenda for the Himalayas.”

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