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The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) challenges everyone to massively scale up restoration efforts that breathe new life into our degraded ecosystems. Restoring our planet’s imperilled ecosystems intrinsically connects us with a chance at a healthier future. We will work together to bring life and function back to ...
Oct 1, 2020 · Download: Contributing to scaling up forest landscape restoration in Ethiopia The contributions of forests to Ethiopia’s economy, an equivalent of 12.86% of the country’s GDP, makes it necessary to invest in solutions that bring the full value from forest to people, which critically includes actions to restore degraded forest landscapes and bring them to full functionality in benefit of ...
Mar 5, 2008 · Ecological restoration : a means of conserving biodiversity and sustaining livelihoods. IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management ; Society for Ecological Restoration International, US. Note: On title page: A call for action by the ecological restoration joint working group of the Society for Ecological Restoration International and the IUCN ...
Mar 1, 2024 · The Nature Restoration Law received approval with 329 votes in favour, 275 against, and 24 abstentions. With over 80% of European habitats in poor condition, the EU Nature Restoration Law aims to restore degraded ecosystems across all Member States , thereby contributing to the achievement of the EU’s climate and biodiversity objectives while enhancing food security.
Nov 7, 2022 · The Restoration Initiative (TRI) Newsletter - August 2023 to May 2024. The second edition of the 2023/2024 TRI newsletter has been published. We made significant progress and rounded up 2023 with an amazing impact. We have also kickstarted 2024 with improved indices and benchmarks for Forest Landscape Restoration in countries of implementation.
Overview. IUCN CEM’s Ecosystem Restoration Thematic Group (ERTG) improves local-to-global ecosystem restoration by contributing technical guidance and translating restoration science into practice. Although people have been assisting the recovery of degraded ecosystems for centuries, the practice of ecological restoration picked up steam in ...
Mar 31, 2020 · Thanks to Rwanda's vision and forward-thinking laws and regulations, the country became one of the early adopters of the Bonn Challenge - a global effort to bring 150 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land into restoration by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030. In 2011, Rwanda was the first country in Africa to ...
Dec 11, 2017 · For restoration to be achieved at the scale of global commitments, which often commits local farm lands and forests, this trend must change. While difficult, scaling-up a diverse suite of locally-adapted FLR interventions throughout entire states or nations is the task at hand. National initiatives and impactful investing have supported large ...
Deforestation and forest degradation impact the lives of 1.6 billion people whose livelihoods depend on forests. One billion of them are among the world’s poorest. Nature-based Solutions such as forest landscape restoration (FLR) can reverse the effects of deforestation and degradation and regain the ecological, social, climatic and economic ...
Dec 12, 2022 · Montreal, Canada, 12 December 2022 (IUCN) – The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has today published its first Restoration Barometer report, documenting that investments of $26bn across 18 countries have brought 14 million hectares of degraded landscapes – an area about the size of Greece – under restoration.
