General Information
Webinar on Financing Forest Landscape Restoration took place on 16 July 2020, 14:00-15:30 C.E.T. The meeting was organized jointly by the Joint UNECE/FAO Forestry and Timber Section and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
This event provided an overview of the opportunities for financing the implementation of forest landscape restoration pledges in Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. The practitioners and institutions were invited to share their insights on the available funding and sources of financing for scaling up Forest Landscape Restoration in the region. These insights also emphasized the role of public, international and private finance in forest landscape restoration.
The event featured speakers from Global Environment Facility(GEF), Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Zukunft – Umwelt – Gesellschaft (ZUG) gGmbH (on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)) and the European Investment Bank. Furthermore, the representatives from International Organizations as UNECE, FAO, IUCN, UNFF highlighted some of the opportunities for financing forest landscape restoration.
This webinar on Financing Forest Landscape Restoration was organized in support of the preparations for the Ministerial Roundtable on Forest Landscape Restoration and the ECCA30/Bonn Challenge in Eastern and South-East Europe (to be hosted by Turkey, 2021).
The Bonn Challenge and ECCA30
The Bonn Challenge is a global effort to bring 150 million hectares of the world's degraded and deforested lands into restoration by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030. It was launched by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which acts as its Secretariat, and the Government of Germany in 2011. More information is available here: https://www.bonnchallenge.org/
ECCA30 is a regional initiative for Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia that seeks to bring 30 million hectares of degraded and deforested land into restoration by 2030. ECCA30 was launched by UNECE, IUCN, the World Bank and the World Resources Institute to secure additional commitments in support of the Bonn Challenge and accelerate the implementation of forest landscape restoration in the region. More information is available here: https://infoflr.org/bonn-challenge/regional-initiatives/ecca30.
Contact information
Should you have any questions please feel free to contact us at:
Roksolana Shelest, UNECE/FAO, at [email protected]
Salome Begeladze, IUCN at [email protected]
Recording of the webinar is available here.
Presentations
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Presenter PDFAgenda PDF
Flyer PDF
Opening remarks and introduction
Mr. Gianluca Sambucini, joint UNECE/FAO Forestry and Timber Section and Mr. Boris Erg, IUCN
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Mapping of funding opportunities for forest landscape restoration in the region
Mr. Peter Gondo, United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat
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Sources of financing for forest landscape restoration: International Climate Initiative (IKI)
Mr. Michael Krause-Besan, Zukunft – Umwelt – Gesellschaft (ZUG) gGmbH. The International Climate Initiative (IKI), The Federal German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
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Sources of financing for forest landscape restoration: The Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Mr. Ulrich Apel, Senior Environmental Specialist, The Global Environment Facility (GEF)
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Sources of financing for forest landscape restoration: Green Climate Fund (GCF)
Mr. Marc Dumas-Johansen, Forest and Land Use Specialist. Green Climate Fund (GCF)
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Sources of financing for forest landscape restoration: European Investment Bank (EIB)
Mr. Stephen D. Hart, Natural Capital Financing Facility, European Investment Bank (EIB)
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