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Restoring our rainforests:Bonn Challenge and Forest
Landscape Restoration
Chetan KumarGlobal Forest and Climate Change Program
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
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Presentation outline• Global context
• Restoration in global climate and development agenda
• Scale of opportunity • Bonn Challenge
• FLR as solution• Concept, approaches to support implementation & challenges
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Global context and the opportunity• Paris agreement
• Article 5.1 “Parties should take action to conserve and enhance, as appropriate, sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases as referred to in Article 4, paragraph 1(d), of the Convention, including forests.”
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)• Development Goal (SDG) 15.3 specifically calls for the restoration of degraded
lands, stating: “By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought, and floods, and strive to achieve a land-degradation-neutral world.”
• What is the scale of opportunity?• More than 2 billion hectares of land worldwide ( GPFLR, 2011).
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World of Opportunity Map
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Bonn Challenge: progress so far• Target
• Commitments to restore 150 million ha by 2020 and 350 million ha by 2030.• Progress so far (bonnchallenge.org)
• 107.3 million ha committed by 34 countries/states/coalitions/private sector.
• Growing regional initiatives and ministerial meetings• Initiative 20x20, AFR 100 initiative , Asia Pacific Regional Strategy • Latin America (August, 2015); East, Central and West Africa (July 2016) and Asia
Pacific Ministerial Meeting (February 2017, South Sumatra, Indonesia).• Increasing collaboration with private sector
• APP’s commitment, development of a private sector platform, business case for landowners and farmers (e.g. Brazil).
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Bonn Challenge ContributorsMillions of Hectares
Argentina 1Asia Pulp and Paper 1Brazil Atlantic Forest PACT 1
Burundi 2Central African Republic 3.5Chile 0.5Colombia 1Congo, Republic of 2Costa Rica 1Côte d’Ivoire 5DRC 8Ecuador 0.5El Salvador 1Ethiopia 15Ghana 2Guatemala 1.2Honduras 1
Millions of Hectares
India 13Kenya 5.1KPK (Pakistan) 0.384Liberia 1Madagascar 1Mexico (National) 7.5
Campeche (Mexico) 0.4Quintana Roo (Mexico) 0.3Yucatan (Mexico) 0.25
Mozambique 1Nicaragua 2.8Niger 3.2Peru 3.2Republic of Guinea 2Rwanda 2Uganda 2.5US Forest Service 15
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Bonn Challenge: making the case • Some examples of benefits from Bonn Challenge:
• US$ 85 billion contribution to local and national economies. • 1 GtCO2 sequestered.• 11-17 percent reduction in current emissions gap.• Approximately 1.6 billion people worldwide would directly benefit.• And an additional USD 6 billion in crop yield increases.
• Commitments provide an implementation platform for international processes
• Aichi target 15 of CBD, UNFCCC, UNCCD, SDGs. etc.
• Underpinned by Forest Landscape Restoration approach
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FLR: revisiting the concept• Long-term process to regain ecological functionality and enhance
human well-being in deforested or degraded landscapes within biomes with the natural potential to support trees
It is not 1. just “forestry” 2. just “trees”3. just planting “sites”
It requires 1. … integrating with other land uses2. …delivery of a broader range of
societal benefits3. ….a vision for a better managed
landscape
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Supporting implementation of FLR• Restoration Opportunities Assessment
Methodology (ROAM)• 23 countries
• ROAM consists of six main components:1. Stakeholder engagement2. Geospatial mapping3. Economic analysis4. Carbon analysis5. Enabling conditions6. Financial analysis
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Supporting implementation of FLR• FLR Desk (http://www.bonnchallenge.org/FLRdesk)• Synthesis and evidences
• Food security, enhancing resilience, green growth and enhancing water security etc.
• Capacity building• FLR Forum (150 participants, 24 countries), over 3000
trained on ROAM, gender responsive FLR training• Innovative tools and methods
• Participatory radio, smart phone apps, • Software/tools: ROOT, RESTS etc.
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Need for stronger partnerships• The challenge is huge and what we need is stronger partnerships for
implementation to address issues such as:• Scaling up experience/models of financing large scale restoration • Addressing of legal and governance frameworks • Enhancing inter-departmental cooperation and eliminating silos • Ensuring a gender responsive FLR implementation
• And amongst us we have the tools and ability to make this possible
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www.iucn.orgwww.bonnchallenge.orghttp://www.bonnchallenge.org/FLRdesk
Thank you!