To date, progress in achieving global development goals has largely come at the expense of the natural capital upon which human development and wellbeing ultimately depends. Major commitments within recent years (2030 Global Agenda, Paris Agreement, Sendai Framework, New York Declaration on Forests) provide a leverage point by which advocacy efforts can accelerate change. Complementing directly the large portfolio of UNDP supported national ecosystems and biodiversity projects financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and other donors, the Global Nature for Development (NFD) Project focuses on the support for, and advocacy of, nature-based solutions that accelerate sustainable development, with a particular focus on food security, water security, disaster risk reduction, livelihoods, health, economic growth and poverty reduction. The project includes three different initiatives, each at three different scales, to achieve the objective of ensuring that the development trajectory in countries begins to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, is inclusive, and accelerates multiple development goals at once. These three initiatives are the Equator Initiative, which shines a spotlight on nature-based solutions by local communities and indigenous communities and finds pathways for scaling these solutions up; the National Biodiversity Initiative, which provides support to countries to plan, implement and report nature-based actions that contribute to SDGs; and the Global Biodiversity Initiative, which strengthens the commitments of governments, corporations and communities to take action on the protection, restoration and sustainable use of biodiversity, including through the New York Declaration on Forests. This project includes five modes of action: 1) advocate for change by convening local, national and global events, including ceremonies, dialogues, workshops, meetings, conferences; 2) improve and accelerate identification, knowledge management and sharing of nature-based solutions for sustainable development; 3) foster participation of indigenous peoples and local communities in natural resource policy decisions that affect them; 4) foster communities of practice around key thematic areas and nature-based solutions; and 5) strengthen the capacity of national and local governments, private sector and communities to implement nature-based solutions for sustainable development.