The Nature, People and Climate (NPC) Investment Program aims to tackle the multiple drivers and impacts of climate change, resulting from human activities on land resources and ecosystems services, in an integrated manner.
The NPC program will deploy nature-based solutions that recognize the interdependence among land use, climate-change mitigation and adaptation, and the improvement of the sources of livelihoods of rural communities and Indigenous peoples. By managing these complex and conjoined relationships and understanding the trade-offs, lasting change can be achieved. By working to adapt to climate change and mitigate its impacts across a diversity of land uses, we can sustainably support many different livelihoods and a just transition that serves to reduce poverty and distribute prosperity equitably.
Indigenous peoples and local communities are often critical to the success of nature-based solutions to climate change. Because of their lived experience at the sharp edge of climate change, Indigenous peoples and local communities are potential agents of viable climate solutions who possess significant knowledge that can be harnessed. However, their important role is often overlooked and undervalued.
The NPC program aims to reverse that situation by promoting the participation of Indigenous peoples and communities, through a unique direct financing initiative called the Dedicated Grant Mechanism (DGM) to:
Most significantly, the DGM seeks to deliver a just transition successfully by working to reduce the impacts of climate change on those who are already poor, marginalized, or otherwise vulnerable.