Nature-based Solutions
Connected to our food systems, the world can reduce emissions by 5.3 Gt annually if it halts deforestation and restores degraded woodlands. These actions would also improve air quality, increase water supplies to cities, boost biodiversity, bolster food security and shore up rural economies.
Most importantly, investments in forests and other ecosystems can make a major contribution to increasing climate resilience.
Actions are required at every level: government, private sector and the public.
- Halve tropical deforestation by 2025 and stop net deforestation by 2030 globally
- Stop policies and subsidies that incentivize deforestation and peatlands degradation and promote their restoration
- The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is a rallying call for the protection and revival of ecosystems all around the world, for the benefit of people and nature. It runs through 2030, which is also the deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals and the timeline scientists have identified as the last chance to prevent catastrophic climate change.
- Restore 150 million hectares of forests and other landscapes by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030 – the two primary goals of the Bonn Challenge
- Systematically monitor and evaluate the progress of conservation and restoration efforts
- Work with suppliers to find collaborative solutions to minimize ecosystem impacts across the supply chain
- Invest in landscape conservation and restoration as part of net-zero emission efforts; investments must meet high social and environmental standards
- Promote investments in deforestation and peatlands drainage-free supply chains.
- Join a local or national organization supporting forest and peatlands habitat conservation and restoration
- Adopt a diet that reduces forest habitat loss, peatlands drainage and degradation by shopping locally and in season and purchasing products with deforestation-free and peatlands drainage-free ingredients, when possible.
- Whenever possible, neutralize your carbon footprint through investments in natural carbon sinks, such as forests and peatlands.
- Work with suppliers to find collaborative solutions to minimize ecosystem impacts across the supply chain
- Invest in landscape conservation and restoration as part of net-zero emission efforts; investments must meet high social and environmental standards
- Promote investments in deforestation-free supply chains.
- Consider overlaps between making your supply chain climate resilient and restoring forests and ecosystems - and make it happen.
Join Race to Zero global campaign that is rallying support from business, cities, regions, and investors for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery.
- Urge your politicians to propose ambitious regulation against deforestation and for nature restoration
- Push for and support policies against deforestation and for nature restoration
- Speak up at work against deforestation and for nature restoration
- Advocate against deforestation and for nature restoration in your organization
- Talk to friends about the need for nature restoration
- Attend or arrange events or communities against deforestation and for nature restoration
- Join a local or national organization supporting forest habitat conservation and restoration
- Adopt a diet that reduces forest habitat loss and degradation by shopping locally and in season and purchasing products with deforestation-free ingredients, when possible
- Whenever possible, neutralize your carbon footprint through investments in natural carbon sinks, such as forests
