White House Floats Cost-Benefit Update To Spur Nature-Based Climate Plans

The White House is pledging to release new guidance on how EPA and other agencies can better account for the cost savings and other benefits of “nature-based solutions” to protect ecosystems from climate change and other threats in their benefit-cost analysis (BCA) to support both regulatory and funding decisions. The announcement of the pending updates to BCA guidance comes as part of a broader “ roadmap” on nature-based solutions released Nov. 8 to coincide with the opening days of the...