Co-led by The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Land Day will focus on three key areas: Nature-Based Solutions (NbS), showcasing successful land restoration initiatives, and the role of private sector collaboration through the Business for Land initiative. By promoting successful land restoration initiatives and cross-sector partnerships, Land Day will drive global action towards achieving Land Degradation Neutrality by 2030 while contributing to broader climate and biodiversity goals. Find out more about Land Day here.
Key objectives:
- Raise awareness on land degradation, promote restoration solutions and address the interconnected challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem pollution through land-based initiatives
- Advocate for NbS to scale sustainable land management, enhance restoration efforts and integrate the three Rio Conventions
- Highlight the private sector's role in land restoration to address challenges, harness opportunities and foster partnerships with non-state actors.
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration on Land Day:
- Land Restoration Moonshot: Success stories
- Meet the most inspiring and ambitious initiatives restoring lands worldwide. Learn from their successes – and failures – to scale your own restoration efforts.
- Time: 11:50 – 12:50
- Venue: Action Dome, Blue Zone
- Land Restoration Moonshot: Scaling finance
- In order to achieve global restoration goals by 2030, the world needs to close a multi-billion-dollar finance gap. The majority of restoration finance is still coming from public sources, reaching a few specific ecosystems, and not distributed adequately across regions. Meet the leaders embarking to change this – and witness the launch of the Land Degradation Neutrality Private Fund 2.0!
- Time: 17:35 – 18:20
- Venue: Action Dome, Blue Zone
*Banner image by Suzanne Rushton on Unsplash.