The Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) will convene landscape restoration champions working at different scales demonstrating the latest progress on monitoring and finance mobilization.

The panel will address the  linkage between monitoring and resources mobilization challenges and opportunities based on 20 years of FLR work and what needs to be addressed aiming for effective impact. It will engage stakeholders to catalyze impact through GBF Target 2 setting and implementation during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. 

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (Decade) may be the most emblematic and relevant moment for the restoration agenda, primarily due to global commitments from governments, businesses, and organized civil society, and now because of Target 2. The Decade demands urgent changes to sustain ecosystems on the brink of extinction and the thousands of people vulnerable to climate change. Innovative approaches are needed to protect existing biodiversity, increase native ecosystem coverage, and reconnect people with nature. The landscape restoration agenda connects the various concerns addressed in United Nations Conventions in an integrated manner using multiple types of restoration interventions. It is important to set a way forward to harmonize restoration commitments across the Bonn Challenge and the UN Conventions.

Moderator: Jim Hallet, SER

Speakers:

• Mamadou NEPAD, AFR100
• Julian Fox, Monitoring, FERM, FAO
• Chetan Kumar, Global Head, Forest and Grasslands Team, IUCN
• Victoria Gutierrez, Head of Global Policy, Commonland
• Khalil Walji, CIFOR-ICRAF
• Anita Diederichsen, WWF