African perspective to the nature based solutions to climate change.

The natural environment worldwide is increasingly affected by climate change. Among the range of proposed solutions, those provided by nature have been acknowledged worldwide as the most potential. This work attempts to explore the various contexts in which nature based solutions are relevant for climate mitigation and adaptation. The paper identified that a lot of countries in Africa are not giving nature the room it needs to operate in mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change. Consequently, the continent lags behind compared to what operates in other jurisdictions. It is against this backdrop that this paper strives to unravel the identified challenges and potential opportunities for increasing the scale and effectiveness of nature-based solution implementation in Africa. This is premised on the infallible assumption that the nature based solution has attained a universal and sacrosanct status which must be respected by all the nations of the earth in their respective national climate targets, known generally as Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement. The paper ends with some recommendations for more active and practical implementation of nature conservation measures in Africa