At the heart of the climate-and-nature nexus through NbS and EbA

NbS Praxis: a dugong grazing in a mangrove channel with the beaver companion at the waterline

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Three ways into the practice, chosen rather than latest.

The NbS Praxis Glossary
Sixty-two terms at the climate-and-nature nexus, each with a definition, examples of what the term does and does not cover, why it matters in practice, institutional sources, and related entries.
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Coastal Protection that Appreciates
Coastal protection is financed backward: we fund the seawall that depreciates and leave off the ledger the ecosystem that, under the right conditions, appreciates.
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This week’s briefing
No. 11 — When the Measure Becomes the Market. The question is not what finance is called, but what its rules capture.
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Why NbS Praxis

Four decades of practice across the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the Green Climate Fund Secretariat, with an Asia-Pacific focus — evolving from water and sanitation engineering and public-private partnerships, through urban development and environment, into green, climate, and nature finance.

NbS Praxis brings that judgment to the climate-and-nature nexus: each week, the developments that matter, verified and sourced; each month, one structural argument taken to depth; and, for a specific project or program, advisory engagement where senior judgment changes the outcome.

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Advisory

Engagement on one specific project, program, or corporate position, where senior practitioner judgment changes the outcome. For a company approaching the international financing institutions, that means establishing which sectors and themes open the door, and how to align with the project cycle early enough to matter rather than arriving once the decisions are made. For a project already in motion, it means structural review of the idea, the concept note, or the funding proposal; theory-of-change design where the outcome logic has to hold across climate and nature expectations at once; positioning for accreditation candidates and delivery partners; and tactical judgment through the preparation and review cycles. Asia-Pacific positioning runs as dedicated sessions with senior management.

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Toolkits

Working resources for project preparation across the international financing institutions and the climate funds. Each toolkit combines public template architecture with practitioner judgment about what reviewers look for, AI-augmented drafting workflows, and case study evidence from publicly approved projects.

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Writing

A weekly briefing on developments at the climate-and-nature nexus, and monthly long-form analysis of specific topics — published free for the community of practitioners doing this integrated work.

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