Start your day with something different! Step into an energizing and inspiring space to celebrate visions for restoring Africa’s landscapes. Hear insights from landscape leaders and local innovators across Africa, showcasing successful restoration stories, pressing challenges, and bold opportunities for transformative change from recent regional consultations. Dive into an engaging discussion with diverse voices and explore paths to sustainable and just futures for Africa’s landscapes.

Report launch: Rooted in restoration: youth-led transformative change for regreening Africa

This event will mark the launch of the report “Rooted in restoration: youth-led transformative change for regreening Africa“, which highlights shared experiences, challenges, and solutions suggested by several dozen young landscape practitioners and experts across Africa who participated in a series of consultations centered on the restoration of African ecosystems. Produced in partnership with Regreening Africa, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, FAO, European Union Commission, CIFOR-ICRAF and the Global Landscapes Forum, and co-written by several experts in the field, this report covers gaps and solutions across policy, finance, capacity building, and communication to show how landscape restoration can be scaled for long-term impact on people and the planet.

Join us on 9 December at 09:00 local time (UTC+3) in the Restoration Pavilion at the UNCCD COP16.