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Our restoration Initiative

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If you are in the New York City or the surrounding area. Go and support this beautiful young lady. Black hair care is a multiBILLION dollar industry. Everyone else is making millions of us, except us. The black dollar barely circulates one time in our community. We complain about the disrespect and mistreatment when other groups of people open up shops in our community and we want change, well here it is! In order to build a nation we MUST support one another.

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#youthfourplanet

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CIFOR Annual report 2019

Forests in a time of crises

As the world witnesses some of our greatest challenges, we shift gears from urgent to emergency – from climate crisis to landscape degradation to wildfires and now a global pandemic. But we also see momentum building for solutions that put forests at the fore, including such as the announcement of the UN Decade of Ecological Restoration 2021–2030, discussions of nature-based solutions, and the recognition of local forest communities and Indigenous Peoples as the best land managers for forest conservation.

Scientific evidence is among the best tools the world has at its disposal to tackle the connected crises the world is facing. The merger of CIFOR and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) – set the stage for more evidence and solutions that will improve people’s lives, help to conserve and restore the ecosystems that support people and nature, and respond to the global climate crisis. Our scientists advanced critical knowledge on forest landscape restoration, wild foods and timber legality in Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and peatland fires, biofuel, oil palm and wetland ‘blue carbon’ in Indonesia – with clear policy impacts in Southeast Asia from 10 years of social forestry research and engagement. Our ongoing Global Comparative Studies – GCS REDD+ and GCS Tenure – continued to bring science to policy makers across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Gender researchers looked deep into a myriad of topics, and we mourned the loss of principal scientist and Nairobi hub leader Esther Mwangi, whose legacy of achievements in gender and land rights won’t be soon forgotten.

The Global Landscapes Forum launched a new community platform GLFx, and a state-of-the-art GLF Digital Broadcasting Center at the CIFOR-ICRAF GLF Bonn office. GLF secretariat in Bonn where GLF produces conferences and events at the vanguard of the digital era. The digital events are broadcast globally, reducing the carbon footprint of participants and partner organizations. Major events in Kyoto, Bonn, New York, Accra and Luxembourg were attended in-person by over 3,000 people, with 65 million reached on social media and coverage from major news outlets like BBC and The Globe and Mail. At the GLF Investment Case, hosted by the Luxembourg Government in November, nearly 500 leaders from sustainable finance institutions including BNP Paribas, the European Investment Bank and Rabo Bank worked to ease the process of channelling investment into landscape sustainability projects and supply chains.

CIFOR-ICRAF alongside the work of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry and the Global Landscapes Forum will continue to provide the crucial data and evidence in the effort to build resilient forests, agroforestry systems and landscapes for a more equitable and sustainable planet.

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#naturebasedsolution

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Our first virtual meeting with on our building back better Advocacy with experts in collaboration with Yobe Youth coalition for Environmental challenges YYCEC

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#EarthDayLive #EarthDay #StrikeWithUs #ClimateStrike #OrphansOfTheSahara

Earth Day Live will be a 3-day live stream and online mobilization to engage people across the world in collective action to protect their climate and their communities. The live stream will include training sessions, performances, and appearances to keep people engaged, informed, and inspired, with speakers including celebrities, politicians, scientists, and youth activists.

Learn more about Earth Day Live: http://earthdaylive2020.org

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We have to rethink about our relationship with Nature.

That’s what friends are for…

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Happy boy

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Boy holding bird, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico

Photographer: Mary E. Dissette Date: 1900? Negative Number: 003753

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UN restoration decade

Compiled from the references indicated towards the end of the document What is Ecosystem Restoration? Why is Ecosystem restoration needed? About the UN Decade on Ecosystem RestorationWhat could the UN Decade achieve?  Which ecosystems are covered under the UN Decade?  References and more links - 

Background and reading materials for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 

Ecosystem restoration is defined as a process of reversing the degradation of ecosystems, such as landscapes, lakes and oceans to regain their ecological functionality; in other words, to improve the productivity and capacity of ecosystems to meet the needs of society. This can be done by allowing the natural regeneration of over-exploited ecosystems, for example, or by planting trees and other plants.Ecosystem restoration is fundamental to achieving Sustainable Development Goals, mainly those on climate change, poverty eradication, food security, water and biodiversity conservation. It is also a pillar of international environmental conventions, such as the Ramsar Convention on wetlands and the Rio Conventions on biodiversity, desertification and climate change.

Land degradation is negatively impacting at least 3.2 billion people and costing over 10 per cent of the annual global gross product in loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Between 2000 and 2009 it was responsible for global emissions of 3.6–4.4 Gt of CO2 per year (IPBES, 2018). Reversing degradation of land and marine ecosystems can provide more than one-third of the mitigation required by 2030 to remain below a 2°C increase in average global temperatures and at the same time conserve biodiversity, increase food and water security, augment the overall well-being of human societies and help achieve the sustainable development goals. 

On 1st March 2019, the member states of the world at United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030, following the invitation to the General Assembly by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity at its fourteenth meeting, in its decision 14/30. 

The Decade’s goal is to prevent, halt and reverse ecosystem degradation – for all terrestrial and marine ecosystems. The UNGA invited the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to lead the implementation of the Decade as custodian agencies, in collaboration with the secretariats of the Rio conventions and other relevant initiatives. The resolution further "stresses the importance of the full involvement of young people". You can read the full text at - https://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/73/284

Ecosystem restoration is fundamental to achieving Sustainable Development Goals, mainly those on climate change, poverty eradication, food security, water and biodiversity conservation. One main objective of this UN Decade is to accelerate existing global restoration goals, for example the goal of bringing at least 350 million hectares of degraded forests and landscapes under restoration by 2030 – an area approximately the size of India. The 350-million-hectare goal builds on the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. The Decade will accelerate existing global restoration goals, for example the Bonn Challenge, which aims to restore 350 million hectares of degraded ecosystems by 2030. Currently, 57 countries, subnational governments and private organizations have committed to bringing over 170 million hectares under restoration. This endeavour builds on regional efforts such as the Initiative 20×20 in Latin America that aims to restore 20 million hectares of degraded land by 2020, and the AFR100 African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative that aims to bring 100 million hectares of degraded land under restoration by 2030.

Work on marine and coastal ecosystems is not yet included in this initial baseline and goal, and UN Environment and FAO would in particular be interested to discuss with other UN entities how to incorporate marine and coastal restoration aspects into the Decade. 

All ecosystems are covered, though at present there is generally more experience and ongoing activities on restoration of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, rather than of marine and coastal ecosystems. 

https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/

https://unemg.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/INF_5_UN-Decade-Ecosystem-Restoration.pdf

https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/new-un-decade-ecosystem-restoration-offers-unparalleled-opportunity

http://www.bonnchallenge.org/un-decade-ecosystem-restoration

https://unemg.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/INF_5_UN-Decade-Ecosystem-Restoration.pdf