Focus on Arts and Ecology

Dear Friends,

It was an incredible week at the 2022 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. After a 2+ year hiatus due to the coronavirus, leaders, visionaries, colleagues, and friends were finally able to gather in-person for a ground-breaking meeting focused on action and impact.

This year also marked the two-year anniversary of the launch of 1t.org and we couldn’t be more proud of what our community and our constituents have accomplished.

In the last two years the trillion trees movement has grown exponentially in our goal to conserve, restore, and grow one trillion trees by 2030. We’ve seen 1t.org emerge as the leader for building public-private partnerships, resulting in 65 companies committing over 5.7 billion trees to be restored around the world.

Together with UpLink, 1t.org has hosted 9 Innovation Challenges to help source and scale the best ecopreneurial ideas for restoration. Just in the past year, our 100 Top Innovators have mobilized more than $129 million in funding and have reported that their innovations have conserved and restored 10 million hectares of natural habitat, reduced and avoided 2.8 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, returned 3,000 species to their natural habitats, and helped 172,000 people gain increased resiliency to climate change impacts.

And 1t.org has expanded to regions across the globe:

• Our US chapter has secured commitments of nearly 50 Billion trees from the NGO community alone.
• In collaboration with The Great Green Wall initiative, 1t.org is developing an action plan to scale native value chains (such as Arabic Gum, Shea and Baobab) that could not only restore the landscape of the Sahel region, but also provide sustainable incomes for millions of people. 
• In March, the 1t.org India Platform was launched to support the country’s commitments under the Paris agreement to restore 26 million hectares of deforested and degraded land and sequester an additional 2.5 to 3 billion tons of CO₂ equivalent through increased forest and tree cover by 2030.

And last but certainly not least, the monumental announcement was made this week that together with the World Economic Forum and China Green Foundation, China will aim to plant and conserve 70 BILLION TREES by 2030 as part of the global tree movement through the newly announced 1t.org China Action.

It’s been a busy week at Davos, and in case you missed any of the action, see below for links to some highlight sessions available for replay.

To close, we’d like to thank all of you for your passion, energy, and drive in helping us to restore the planet. Read more about what the last two years have meant to us and our vision for the future.

Thank you for joining us on this journey.

Yours in restoration,
The 1t.org team

1t.org 2022 Annual Meeting Recommended Sessions

Staying on Course for Nature Action
With over 50% of the world's total GDP highly or moderately dependent on nature and its services, economies face increasing risks from inaction in the face of looming tipping points. What global actions should government and business prioritize to accelerate nature-positive progress?
 
Safeguarding Our Planet and People
While food and energy supply chains are at risk, global carbon emissions rebounded in 2021 to reach their highest annual level and nature continues to decline rapidly, with 1 million species at risk of extinction. What bold innovations and actions are needed to build a more secure and resilient planet?
 
Accelerating Corporate Investment in Nature
Nature-based solutions can provide one-third of the mitigation needed to reach a 1.5C pathway by 2030, at lower costs than technological solutions while offering substantial co-benefits for people and the planet. What is needed to ramp up socially and ecologically responsible corporate investment in nature?
 
The Entrepreneur Revolution: A global movement to accelerate progress on the SDGs
Join this press conference to hear directly from the visionary leaders who are driving UpLink forward, and discover why their investment in water resilience, tree conservation, and "ecopreneurs" can significantly accelerate the delivery of the SDGs and drive transformational change across the globe.
 
Turning Words into Action
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) landmark report warns humanity that "it’s now or never" to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis. What is needed from world leaders in 2022 to deliver meaningful action to reduce emissions and rejuvenate the natural world?
 
A New Pathway for the Amazon Basin
How can governments from across the region further pathways for collaboration with scientists, ecopreneurs and businesses to contribute to the Amazon’s sustainable development?

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