• Six new countries- France, the United States of America, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Pakistan and the UN Environment Programme, including its World Conservation Monitoring Centre are joining the ENACT Partnership.

ABOUT ENACT

• Germany and Egypt along with the International Union for Conservation of Nature launched ENACT (Enhancing Nature-based Solutions for an Accelerated Climate Transformation) at COP27 at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt in December 2022.
• Canada, the European Union, Spain, Malawi, Norway, South Korea, Japan and Slovenia were also founding members of the partnership.
• It is an ambitious global initiative that seeks to coordinate global efforts to address climate change, land and ecosystem degradation, and biodiversity loss through Nature-based Solutions.
  • Nature-based Solutions involve working with and for, rather than against nature, which is critical to deliver the climate, biodiversity, and land restoration action necessary to steward human well-being for all.
  • These include wastewater management, sustainable agriculture, forestry and fishing, pollution abatement etc.
• ENACT Partnership aims to
  • enhance the protection from and resilience to climate impacts of at least 1 billion vulnerable people,
  • secure up to 2.4 billion hectares of healthy natural and sustainable ecosystems, and
  • significantly increase global mitigation efforts through protecting and restoring carbon-rich ecosystems.