1000L at COP 16: Landscape Finance for Holistic Landscape Restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean
As countries update their NBSAPs and develop biodiversity finance plans (BFPs) to meet GBF’s Target 2, innovative landscape finance is essential. Holistic landscape restoration, which addresses biodiversity loss, land degradation, climate change, and water management, offers multiple benefits and long-term returns.
Recognition of landscape and ecosystem restoration’s importance has surged, driven by data showing its economic, social, and environmental benefits. Global initiatives like the Bonn Challenge, the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, 1000 Landscapes for One Billion People, Initiative 20×20, and the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative reflect this growing commitment. These movements promote awareness, knowledge exchange, resource mobilization, and coordinated restoration efforts.
We will introduce a new publication, ‘Towards Financing Large-scale Restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean’ (available in English and Spanish), offering policy recommendations for scaling holistic restoration efforts through integrated landscape and water management approaches, aligned with the ecosystem approach (CBD COP5 2000).
Organizer
For over 20 years, EcoAgriculture Partners has convened thousands of leaders worldwide to address persistent land-use challenges. We have long understood the urgent need to sustainably manage our natural resources in a way that safeguards ecosystems, strengthens economies, and improves livelihoods.
EcoAgriculture Partners works to revolutionize how communities, governments, and businesses interact with landscapes and each other. Through collaborative action, we support the development of learning tools, design mechanisms to accelerate the delivery of meaningful and large-scale finance, produce publications, and influence policies that help bring communities, institutions, and governments together to implement integrated landscape management (ILM
World Resources Institute is a global nonprofit organization that works with leaders in government, business and civil society to research, design, and carry out practical solutions that simultaneously improve people’s lives and ensure nature can thrive.
1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People (1000L) is a radical collaboration of change agents working together to accelerate landscape efforts to sustain and restore ecosystems, build rural prosperity and confront climate change.
1000L is convened by EcoAgriculture Partners, and co-led with Rainforest Alliance, Commonland, Conservation International, the United Nations Development Programme, Landscape Finance Lab, and information technology leader Tech Matters. Another 20+ partners are sharing technical and financial expertise, and 12+ Landscape Partnerships are co-designing the initiative.