How transboundary land-and sea-scape based initiatives are addressing climate change and biodiversity loss holistically to deliver co-benefits for nature, people and climate.

The event will showcase initiatives that are using nature-based solutions to address the climate and biodiversity crises in holistic ways that deliver multiple co-benefits benefits for nature, climate and people across mitigation, adaptation and addressing loss and damage.

The event will highlight the lessons learn from several large scale, multi-national initiatives that are working to create climate-resilient land- and sea-scapes and how those initiativesare sequestering carbon, increasing biodiversity, improving ecosystem services delivery, and building sustainable nature-positive economies. Initiatives to be showcased include: Regreening Africa (ICRAF); Great Blue Wall (IUCN); Room to Roam (IFAW); Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA); Earth Today (UoN). The event will explore some of the challenges and opportunities that exist for mobilizing landscape-based initiatives at scale, including the challenge of raising finance that is appropriate and of sufficient scale to the needs. The Union of Nature will present their new financing platform, Earth Today, and how it is supporting members of the Yawanawa tribe to protect and restore their traditional lands in the heart of the Amazon.

Moderator: Simon Addison, IFAW

Panelists:

• Jimmiel Mandima, IFAW
• Leigh Winowiecki, CIFOR-ICRAF
• Thomas Sberna, IUCN
• Paula Coelho, Angola
• Laura Yawanawa, Union of Nature Foundation