The 29th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), was held in Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11 to 22, 2024. At the conference, Acting Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Laura Daniel-Davis, highlighted locally led nature-based solutions for climate resilience, including three projects supported by the Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs): 
 

1. Nature-Based Solutions Roadmap: With support from the National CASC, researchers from Duke University published a digital user-friendly "roadmap” that features over 400 case studies of nature-based solutions that are being implemented from the U.S. and around the world. The case studies include projects from Department staff and partners.  
    

2. Implementing Landscape-Level Approaches to Resource Management: Addressing challenges like wildfire, drought, or sea-level rise requires coordination and collaboration across many jurisdictions—federal, state, tribal, and non-governmental. The guidance document, “Implementing Landscape-Level Approaches to Resource Management,” was developed with USGS Research Social Scientist and North Central CASC affiliate Amanda Cravens serving as a Guidance Advisor for the report, with input from additional Interior Department staff, including CASC contributors Ryan Boyles, Janet Cushing, Carolyn Enquist, and Nicole Herman-Mercer.  
    

3. Best Practices for Incorporating Climate Change Science: Co-led by Southeast CASC scientists Adam Terando and Ryan Boyles, “Best Practices for Incorporating Climate Change Science into Department of the Interior Analyses, Consultations, and Decision Making” provides practical guidance for using and conducting climate change science to inform policy development, decision-making, and planning for risk and uncertainty. 

With strategies and key considerations, the roadmap showcases possible opportunities for practitioners to incorporate nature-based solutions into their work. Resource managers and other decision makers may look to the available guidance documents to inform climate change planning efforts.