Dear all,
During the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit, world leaders will convene in New York to secure political will leading to ambitious commitments, as well as long-term strategies with interim actions and targets towards achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nature-based solutions, such as forest landscape restoration, is implementable and scalable approach to advance climate change mitigation and adaptation in line with the goals of Paris Agreement and SDGs
On this important occasion, Iit is our pleasure to invite you to join country champions at the launch of a new regional initiative to bring 30 million hectares of degraded and deforested landscapes in Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia into restoration by 2030 in line with the Bonn Challenge, the New York Declaration on Forests and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (hereafter ECCA30). The initiative will be launched during the Forest and Restoration Action Day at the Nature’s Climate Hub in New York – to coincide with the UN Climate Action Summit and Climate Week – on 22nd September 14:00-15:00hr.
As a follow-up to the Ministerial Roundtable on Forest Landscape Restoration and the Bonn Challenge, seven countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia have committed close to 3 million hectares to the Bonn Challenge (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan). Furthermore, a global ambition to restore degraded and deforested landscapes has been supported by Scotland making a pledge of 0.17 million ha to the Bonn Challenge in early 2019. ECCA30 will serve as a regional initiative to secure additional commitments and accelerate the implementation of the Bonn Challenge. It will facilitate access to technical and financial support, and reinforce regional cooperation and capacity exchange on forest landscape restoration (FLR). Further, it will help countries receive international and regional recognition of their restoration ambitions connected to their domestic priorities and projects.
Event details: New forest landscape restoration initiative in Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia to unlock climate action, during the Forest and Restoration Action Day at the Nature’s Climate Hub
Date: Sunday, September 22, 2019
Time: 14:00 – 15:00
Venue: Convene Center, 101 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10178
Please find enclosed draft programme flyer. The full program is available on the Nature4Climate website.
This is an ‘invite only’ event, please register on the website here or please confirm your attendance to: Salome.Begeladze@iucn.org.
We hope you can join us and look forward to sharing the ECCA30 initiative with you and many others at Nature’s Climate Hub.
Swati Hingorani
Project Knowledge and Impact Officer
Forest Conservation Programme
International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN
1630 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington D.C. 20009
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