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Key messages
- Nature-based solutions comprise great untapped potential for addressing the dual challenges of biodiversity loss and the impacts of climate change across the Arab region;
- The priority areas for which nature-based interventions would generate the greatest biodiversity and climate synergies were identified in the Atlas highlands, the western coasts of North Africa, the Nile delta, the coastal Mashreq area and the Jordan River Valley, the southern Mesopotamian floodplains and the coastal areas of the Arabian Peninsula along the Gulf of Oman.
- Appropriate nature-based solutions should be selected based on the biophysical characteristics, socioeconomic conditions and priority development needs of the locations identified for intervention.
- The impacts of nature-based solutions can exceed the mitigation objectives for which they were designed and generate considerable further adaptation benefits, including improved watershed protection, water supply and purification, coast stabilization, flood protection and enhanced resilience against sand and dust storms.