New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- Warning that global investment patterns are overwhelmingly tilted toward environmental destruction, Dechen Tsering, Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), on Thursday called for a dramatic scale-up of funding for nature-based solutions at the World Sustainable Development Summit 2026.

Addressing the summit under the theme "Transforming through and for Nature", Tsering highlighted that the current decade has been declared the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, with a global pledge to restore one billion hectares of degraded land.

"When you talk about reforesting, land restoration, they are all nature-based solutions that enhance resilience, restore nature, giv...