Date: 18 October 2023
Time: 1:00 - 2:30pm EST
Location: Room Anacostia D/E, Renaissance Hotel Downtown, Washington D.C., USA
This is an official side-event of the World Forum on Urban Forests 2023.
Cities play a critical role in tackling the global biodiversity crisis. For too long humans have built cities to keep nature at bay. Today, cities are major contributors to loss nature loss, with urbanisation leading to habitat fragmentation, pollution, and negative impacts on ecosystems within urban areas and well beyond into rural areas and natural systems.
Reversing these trends is as urgent as ever: three quarters of the infrastructure that will exist in 2050 has yet to be built, and urban areas are growing in precious biodiverse regions.
The session will present opportunities for city stakeholders, practitioners and investors to collaborate under the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration to build a Generation Restoration. New initiatives from UNEP, ICLEI and FAO to catalyse the needed change will be presented and discussed.
