GLOBAL RESTORATION INITIATIVE

Charles Barber | World Resources Institute

Prospects for a Regional Approach to Restoration in the Asia-Pacific Region:

Some Lessons from Latin America and Africa

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FOREST

DEGRADED LAND/ABANDONED LAND/CRITICAL LAND

AGRO-FORESTRY

AGRICULTURE-FARMING

FORESTS ARE BEING CONVERTED INTOAGRICULTURE/FARMING LANDS

FORESTS, AGRICULTURE, AND AGRO-FORESTRY LANDS ARE NOT MANAGED PROPERLY AND TURNED INTO DEGRADED LANDS

FORESTS AND LANDSCAPE RESTORATION

ARE NOT JUST AFORESTATION OR REFORESTATION

CURRENT CONDITION

WITH NO INTERVENTION, WE WILL HAVE MORE DEGRADED, UNPRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE IN THE FUTURE

FOREST

AGRO-FORESTRY

AGRICULTURE-FARMING

PRODUCTION INTENSIFICATION

STOPPING DEFORESTATION

FORESTS AND LANDSCAPE RESTORATION

ARE NOT JUST AFORESTATION OR REFORESTATION

VISION FOR THE FUTURE

DEGRADED LAND/ABANDONED LAND/CRITICAL LAND

FOREST

AGRICULTURE-FARMING

AGRO-FORESTRY

LANDSCAPERESTORATION

FUNCTIONING & PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE

Opportunity: Restore productivity and function to degraded and deforested lands

Agriculture

Forest

Degraded and Deforested Land

Agriculture

Forest

Agro-forestry

Today Vision for 2050

Intensify production

Avoid deforestation

Restore into mixed systems

Agro-forestry

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Restore a balance of economic, ecological and social returns within the landscape

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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

Loess PlateauBefore: 1999

Loess PlateauAfter: 2005

• ↓ soil erosion on 920,000 hectares• 99% ↓ in sediment in water • 2.5 million people out of poverty

IT’S BEEN DONE BEFORE…

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Image: Flickr/CIFOR; Source: WRI

150mhectares under restoration by 2020

AMBITIOUS GLOBAL TARGETS EXIST

Bonn Challenge

350mhectares under restoration by 2030

NY Declaration

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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 ConservacionPatagonica

COP21 in Paris (Dec 2015)

goal= 100 million

• India: 10 million

• China: 40 million

• Indonesia: 12 million

• Brazil: 12 million

• Kenya: 13 million

• Niger: 3.2 million

• Others…

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WHAT IS NEEDED TO SPARK A GLOBAL

RESTORATION MOVEMENT?

Ambitious targets

- Bonn Challenge: 150 million hectares by 2020

- NY Declaration: 350 million hectares by 2030

People who want to restore

- Donors

- Governments

- Civil society organizations

- Businesses

- Landowners

Inputs

- Commitments

- Assessments

- Knowledge

- Approaches

- Materials

- Financing

- Monitoring

Supporting entities

- Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR)

- Global Restoration Council

- Regional restoration initiatives

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Promote good practices

Strategy & Management Support

Strategy

Africa (10)

LAC (12)

Asia (2)

Budgets &Finance

Comms Systems

Fundraising M&E

Countries Core Offers

Facilitatefinance

Monitorprogress

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

1. Encourage political commitments

2. Provide technical support for

implementation

3. Develop financial architecture and

secure financing

What needs to be done at the Regional Level?

SUPPORT GLOBAL AMBITION

POLITICAL – SETS THE AGENDA

TECHNICAL FINANCIAL

Brazil (ES)

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Ecuador

El Salvador

Guatemala

Mexico

Nicaragua

Peru

New York

Declaration

on Forests

Secure financing

Private sector equity

($0.7 billion)

Debt finance (5X equity)

Partial Risk Guarantee ($0.1

billion) and Capitalization

Fund

Investment Readiness Fund($10 million)

Political• CAR

• DRC

• Ethiopia

• Ghana

• Kenya

• Liberia

• Madagascar

• Malawi

• Mozambique

• Niger

• Rwanda

• Togo

• Uganda15

Financial• BMZ

• World Bank

• Global Environment Facility (GEF)

• Moringa Partnership

• EcoPlanet Bamboo

• Green World Ventures

• Permian Global

• Terra Global Capital

• Form International

• NatureVest

Technical

• NEPAD Agency

• GIZ

• Green Belt Movement

• FAO

• ICRAF

• IUCN

• Jane Goodall Institute

• Clinton Foundation

• Kijani

• LPFN

• TNC

• WRI

13 countries41m hectares

$1.02bn development finance$545m impact investment 11 technical partners

• Core partners:– NEPAD Agency– BMZ– WRI

• Ambitious continental target of 100 million hectares by 2030– Formally adopted by the African Union– 31 million hectares from 10 countries committed at COP21

• Support committed thus far:– 1 multilateral bank (World Bank)– 7 impact investors (Moringa Partnership, Permian Global,

NatureVest, EcoPlanet Bamboo, Green World Ventures, Terra Global Capital, Form International)

– 11 technical partners (NEPAD, WRI, FAO, Clinton Foundation, IUCN, TNC, FAO, ICRAF, Jane Goodall Institute, LPFN, Kijani, The Greenbelt Movement)

AFR100

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42.00

3.19 1.52

35.7632

5.0596 5.6064

2.9252

0.1191 1.8893

29.8368

9.496

50.4353

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

FOREST ESTATE CONVERTIBLE FORESTS NON-FOREST ESTATE

Mill

ions

HUTAN PRIMER

SECONDARY FOREST

PLANTATION FORESTS

NON-FORESTED

Source: Statistik Kehutanan 2013, Kementerian Kehutanan Republik IndonesiaHasil penafsiran citra Landsat 7 ETM+ liputan tahun 2012, Direktorat Inventarisasi dan Pemantauan Sumber Daya Hutan

LAND COVER & LEGAL STATUS STATISTICS

INDONESIA

42.00

3.19 1.52

35.7632

5.0596 5.6064

2.9252

0.1191 1.8893

29.8368

9.496

50.4353

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

FOREST ESTATE CONVERTIBLE FORESTS NON-FOREST ESTATE

Mill

ions

HUTAN PRIMER

SECONDARY FOREST

PLANTATION FORESTS

NON-FORESTED

Source: Statistik Kehutanan 2013, Kementerian Kehutanan Republik IndonesiaHasil penafsiran citra Landsat 7 ETM+ liputan tahun 2012, Direktorat Inventarisasi dan Pemantauan Sumber Daya Hutan

• 29 mil Ha non-forested area within forest estate

• Not allowed to be used for non-forestry activities

• 14 mil Ha forested area within non-forest estate

• Prone to be deforested and converted to non-forest land

42.00

3.19 1.52

35.7632

5.0596 5.6064

2.9252

0.1191 1.8893

29.8368

9.496

50.4353

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

FOREST ESTATE CONVERTIBLE FORESTS NON-FOREST ESTATE

Mill

ions

HUTAN PRIMER

SECONDARY FOREST

PLANTATION FORESTS

NON-FORESTED

Source: Statistik Kehutanan 2013, Kementerian Kehutanan Republik IndonesiaHasil penafsiran citra Landsat 7 ETM+ liputan tahun 2012, Direktorat Inventarisasi dan Pemantauan Sumber Daya Hutan

CONSERVATION EFFORTS

42.00

3.19 1.52

35.7632

5.0596 5.6064

2.9252

0.1191 1.8893

29.8368

9.496

50.4353

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

FOREST ESTATE CONVERTIBLE FORESTS NON-FOREST ESTATE

Mill

ions

HUTAN PRIMER

SECONDARY FOREST

PLANTATION FORESTS

NON-FORESTED

Source: Statistik Kehutanan 2013, Kementerian Kehutanan Republik IndonesiaHasil penafsiran citra Landsat 7 ETM+ liputan tahun 2012, Direktorat Inventarisasi dan Pemantauan Sumber Daya Hutan

RESTORATION EFFORTS

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