Nairobi, October 9, 2023- Cuba is attending the final round of intergovernmental consultations on nature-based solutions. These are in-person meetings held at the United Nations Office of Nairobi, Kenya, from 9th to 13th October 2023, comprising both regional and global consultations.
As antecedent, at the resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2) held in February 2022 in Nairobi, the Assembly adopted resolution 5/5 of 2 March 2022, entitled "Nature-based solutions for supporting sustainable development”. The resolution provides the first multilaterally agreed definition of nature-based solutions’ as “actions to protect, conserve, restore, sustainably use and manage natural or modified terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems which address social, economic and environmental challenges effectively and adaptively, while simultaneously providing human well-being, ecosystem services, resilience and biodiversity benefits”.