GLOBAL

RESTORATION

INITIATIVE

World Resources Institute

Image: Flickr/USAID Kenya

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… from Inspiration to Implementation

1. Increasing pressures on land

2. Decreasing utilization of land

3. The poor are disproportionately affected

World Population: 1950 - 2050

Population increase to 9.6B by 2050 Expected consumption increase to 69%

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CHALLENGES

CHALLENGES

1. Increasing pressures on land

2. Decreasing utilization of land

3. The poor are disproportionately affected

47% of forests degraded or deforested 1/3 of land is highly or moderately degraded

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CHALLENGES

1. Increasing pressures on land

2. Decreasing utilization of land

3. The poor are disproportionately affected

46m2 of arable land lost /capita / year (IFPRI) The poor face more severe degradation (FAO)

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Governance

Water

Energy

Climate

Finance

Economics

Business

Food

Forests

IDENTIFY BENEFITS AND MAKE THE CASE

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OPPORTUNITY:

RESTORE PRODUCTIVITY AND FUNCTION

Agriculture

Forest

Degraded and Deforested Land

Agriculture

Forest

Agro-forestry

Today Vision for 2050

Intensify production

Avoid deforestation

Restore into mixed systems

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Agro-forestry

RESTORE VITALITY AND BALANCE

TO THE LANDSCAPE

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THERE IS HOPE

Source: Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration

2bn hectares with opportunities for restoration

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Image: Flickr/CIFOR; Source: WRI

150m hectares under restoration by 2020

AMBITIOUS TARGETS EXIST

The Bonn Challenge

350m hectares under restoration by 2030

New York Declaration

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IT’S BEEN DONE BEFORE…

South Korea, 1960

South Korea, 2000

• Forest cover from 35% to 64% • Forest density increased 14x,

population 2x, economy 25x

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Niger, Pre-1990s

Niger, Today

• 5 million hectares restored into agroforestry

• Improved food security for 2.5 million people

IT’S BEEN DONE BEFORE…

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COMMITMENTS TO RESTORE ARE MOUNTING

Bonn Challenge Launch (2011)

total = 20 million

•USA: 15 million

•Rwanda: 2 million

•Costa Rica: 1 million

•El Salvador: 1 million

•PACTO: 1 million

UN Climate Summit (Sep 2014)

total = 48 million

•Ethiopia: 15 million

•DRC: 8 million

•Uganda: 2.5 million

•Guatemala: 1.2 million

•Colombia: 1 million

•Chile: 100,000

COP20 in Lima (Dec 2014)

total = 60 million

•Mexico: 8.5 million

•Peru: 3 million

•Panama: 1 million

•Ecuador: 500,000

•Argentina & Chile: 1 million via Conservacion Patagonica

COP21 in Paris (Dec 2015)

total = 86 million

• India

• China

• Brazil

• Kenya

• Niger

• Malawi

• Liberia

• Togo

• Madagascar

• Others…

Promote good practices

Strategy & Management Support

Strategy

Africa (10)

LAC (12)

Asia (2)

Budgets & Finance

Comms Systems

Fundraising M&E

Countries Core Offers

Facilitate finance

Monitor progress

Support scaling strategies

DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger,

Rwanda, Togo, Uganda

India, Indonesia

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador,

Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru

AFR100 (WRI lead)

Initiative 20x20 (WRI lead)

Asia (WRI not lead)

Partnerships

Global Restoration Initiative

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• Emphasize private finance and reducing risk with public funds

• Emphasize pipeline development

• Connect supply and demand in the market

• Align with investments (institutional and community)

• Assess biophysical, governance, capacity, socioeconomic indicators

• Combine remote sensing and on-the-ground processes

• Identify and address systemic barriers to scale

• Convene partnerships across sectors

• Map scale opportunities

• Assess economic case

• Help take stock of current projects and successes

• Document case studies

• Tell stories

• Develop and promote core principles for good practices

Promote good

practices

Support scaling

strategies

Facilitate finance

Monitor progress

CORE OFFERS

GLOBAL RESTORATION COUNCIL

Members:

• Felipe Calderón, former President of Mexico

• Fernando Cardoso, former President of Brazil

• Bianca Jagger, Chairperson of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation

• Chuck Leavell, keyboardist for Rolling Stones, award-winning forester, founder of Mother Nature Network

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• Wanjira Mathai,

Chairperson of the Green Belt Movement

• Göran Persson, Co-Chair and former Prime Minister of Sweden

• Bill Richardson, former Governor of New Mexico and UN Ambassador

• Mark Tercek, President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy

• Rosa Lemos de Sa, President and CEO of FUNBIO

OPPORTUNITY ASSESSMENT

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• How to “package” opportunities – Restoration Opportunities

Assessment Methodology (ROAM)

1. Stakeholder input

2. Geospatial mapping

3. Economic analysis

4. Carbon analysis

5. Enabling conditions

6. Financial analysis

ROAM process

Step 1 Identify land use challenges

Step 2 Identify and map landscape restoration options

Step 3

Conduct cost-benefit analysis, including carbon sequestration potential

Step 4

Analyze enabling conditions – policies, finance, and institutions

Step 5 Identify financial and investment options

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Step 6 Prioritize landscape restoration options

Regulation of soil quality

Woody biomass

Regulation of water

timing and flows

Forest habitat and corridors

Non-timber tree products

6. Soil erosion

7. Siltation/ sedimentation

of waterbodies

3. Loss of soil fertility

5. Deforestation

2. Forest degradation

1. Habitat fragmentation/

loss of biodiversity

4. Overgrazing

8. Water stress

10. Landslides

9. Flooding

Regulation of landslides

Regulation of flooding

Freshwater quality

Erosion control

11. Climate change mitigation Carbon sequestration

NATIONAL LAND USE CHALLENGES ECOSYSTEM SERVICES TO BE RESTORED

Regulation of local climate

Freshwater quantity

Restoration option: expanding natural forests

inside protected areas

Potential Natural Vegetation

Dry evergreen Afro-Montane Forest and Grassland complex

Moist Evergreen Afro-Montane Forest

Transitional Rain Forest

National Forest Priority Areas

National Parks, Wildlife Reserve, and Wildlife Sanctuary

Region boundaries

Water bodies

1. Locate where forest could grow

Restoration option: expanding natural forests

inside protected areas

Potential Natural Vegetation

Dry evergreen Afro-Montane Forest and Grassland complex

Moist Evergreen Afro-Montane Forest

Transitional Rain Forest

National Forest Priority Areas

National Parks, Wildlife Reserve, and Wildlife Sanctuary

Region boundaries

Water bodies

1. Locate where forest could grow

2. Exclude existing forested lands,

wetlands, urban areas, and

irrigated crops

Restoration option: expanding natural forests

inside protected areas

Potential Natural Vegetation

Dry evergreen Afro-Montane Forest and Grassland complex

Moist Evergreen Afro-Montane Forest

Transitional Rain Forest

National Forest Priority Areas

National Parks, Wildlife Reserve, and Wildlife Sanctuary

Region boundaries

Water bodies

1. Locate where forest could grow

2. Exclude existing forested lands,

wetlands, urban areas, and

irrigated crops

3. Exclude areas outside of National

Parks, Wildlife Reserves, Wildlife

Sanctuaries, and National Forest

Priority Areas

WHERE?

MONITORING OF RESTORATION

• “Global Baseline Project” to establish a common baseline

• Flexible monitoring system required. In-country approaches are likely to differ

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Remote sensing

On-the-ground

monitoring

Visual interpretation

GEOGRAPHIES:

SUPPORTING RESTORATION IN 18 COUNTRIES

Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Costa Rica Ecuador

Guatemala Mexico Panama

Peru Ethiopia Kenya

Malawi Niger Rwanda

Uganda India Indonesia

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LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN:

INITIATIVE 20X20

Goal: Restore 20 million hectares in LAC by 2020 1. Political commitment

11 countries committing a total of 23+ million hectares

2. Economic analysis Making the economic and financial case for restoration

3. Financial mechanisms Six impact investors aligning USD $670 million behind 20x20. Structuring a partial guarantee mechanism to catalyze additional financing

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Argentina Chile Colombia

Costa Rica Ecuador Guatemala

Mexico Panama Peru

Initiative 20x20 A country-led effort to initiate restoration of 20 Mha in Latin America by

2020 in support of the Bonn Challenge

MEXICO, GUATEMALA , NICARAGUA, EL

SALVADOR, COSTA RICA, COLOMBIA,

ECUADOR, PERU, CHILE, ARGENTINA

Background: the context of land degradation

in Latin America

50%

58%

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of annual GHG emissions in LAC from land use and land use change

13% of global food and fiber trade from LAC

of non large urban area employment in LAC tied to

agriculture and forestry

350 Mha of lost or degraded forest landscapes

Mha of forests and grasslands converted to agriculture in LAC since 2000

Restoration: Bring back land functionality (carbon

soil, water, vegetation, biodiversity)

Silvopasture

Agroforestry and low Carbon sustainable agriculture

Avoided degradation Reforestation

Why restore?

Reduce GHG emissions

Improve rural livelihoods

Improve food security and ability to meet

demand for food, feed, and fibre

Restore ecosystem services

Strengthen resilience to climate impacts

1. Encourage political commitments

2. Develop financial architecture and secure

financing

3. Provide technical support for implementation

Initiative 20x20 activities

1. Initiative 20x20 ambitions to date

Mexico

Peru

Nicaragua

Bosques Modelo*

Guatemala

Colombia

El Salvador

Conservacion Patagonica*

Costa Rica

Chile

Ecuador

American Bird Conservancy*

Espiritu Santo (Br)

8.5

3.2

2.8

1.6

1.2

1.0

1.0

1.0

0.5

0.5

0.1

0.08

22.5 Mha by August 2015; GOAL exceeded

1.0

Mha

* Regional programs

2. Secure financing

Risk capital from impact

investors

$0.74 billion earmarked

Debt finance (5x risk capital expected)

Proposals for partial risk guarantees ($115 million)

MORINGA PARTNERSHIP

Financial Architecture goals

• Support private (impact) investment in

restoration as a complement of public

resources to promote the goals of the

Bonn Challenge

– Manage risks

– Strengthen investment readiness

– Stimulate capital flows into investment

3. Key themes identified by countries for technical

assistance under 20x20

• Robust monitoring system

• Supportive incentive system

• Reliable long term supply of germ plasm

• Accessible information on restoration

technologies

• Assessment of financial and economic returns

• Improved investment readiness

Initiative 20x20 partners delivering

technical assistance in support of the

Bonn challenge

Skills of the partnership

Institutional Partner

Strengths Space

BIOVERSITY Sustainable use and protection of biodiversity assets

Regional

CATIE Agro-forestry extension services and science Regional

CIAT Agriculture science and technology Regional

FUNDACION AGRESTE

Ecosytem conservation, restoration and conservation of wilderness

Argentina

FAS Sustainable use of rainforests Amazon region

ICRAF Agroforestry Global

IUCN Link to Bonn Challenge and Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR), link to regional and country programs in FLR

Global/Regional

Von Humboldt Institute

Biodiversity science Colombia

WRI Forestry, restoration, economics and development, links to climate change

Global

ASIA:

INDIA AND INDONESIA

• New governments in India and Indonesia

• Window of opportunity exists to influence the path of green growth

• Initial funding secured to provide support

• Early stages of restoration assessment process

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PARTNERSHIPS ARE ESSENTIAL AT EACH LEVEL OF SCALE

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Global

• Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR)

Regional

• 20x20: CIAT, CATIE, impact investors

• AFR100: NEPAD Agency, BMZ, IUCN, Clinton Foundation, others

In-country

• National & sub-national government

• Private sector

• Civil society

• Community based organizations