Highlights and images for 27 November 2018

On its 11th and final day, the Rio Conventions Pavilion focused on Forest Landscape and Ecosystem Restoration. The Day aimed to:

• Generate a better understanding of the role of global partnerships on forest and ecosystem restoration, as well as contributions from their individual members, in fostering progress towards the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets;
• Build on the growing momentum around the restoration agenda, for which a UN Decade has been proposed;
• Showcase policy and project-level initiatives to advance biodiversity, ecosystem services, sustainable development and climate goals in an integrated manner; and
• Outline of the role that restoration targets could play in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Throughout the day, expert panels and interactive discussion sessions explored how to strengthen partnerships to further advance global forest, climate and biodiversity goals through restoration approaches. The sessions presented supporting tools and resources from partners, inspiring examples from restoration initiatives on the ground, as well as sustainable forest management models that incorporate biodiversity considerations. The Day was convened by the Forest Ecosystem Restoration Initiative (FERI) in collaboration with members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests and the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration, and the Society for Ecological Restoration, with support from the Korea Forest Service.

Photos by IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis

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Opening session

Blaise Bodin, CBD Secretariat / Forest Ecosystem Restoration Initiative (FERI)

Ham Tae-Sik, Korea Forest Service

Jorge Ernesto Quezada, El Salvador

Stefan van der Esch, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

Alexander Shestakov, CBD Secretariat

Taking stock of global opportunities for Forest Landscape and Ecosystem Restoration

Mark Nicholson, Plants for Life International (PLI)

Adriana Vidal, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Bernardo Strassburg, International Institute for Sustainability

Jim Hallett, Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)

Implementing the Short Term Action Plan for Ecosystem Restoration

Madeline Craig, UN Development Programme (UNDP)

Liliane Parany, Madagascar National Parks

From L-R: Jim Hallett, SER; Mark Nicholson, PLI; Liliane Parany, Madagascar National Parks; and Blaise Bodin, CBD Secretariat / FERI

Jim Hallett, SER, and Mark Nicholson, PLI

Ruth Spencer, Antigua and Barbuda

Cooperation for efficient action on forest landscape and ecosystem restoration

Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and Adriana Vidal, IUCN

Marie-Laetitia Busokeye, Rwanda

From L-R: Blaise Bodin, CBD Secretariat / FERI; Marie-Laetitia Busokeye, Rwanda; Hermine Kleymann, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF); Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff, FAO; Adriana Vidal, IUCN; Madeline Craig, UNDP; and Marieta Sakalian, UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

Hermine Kleymann, WWF

Marieta Sakalian, UNEP

Aligning action on biodiversity with the GEF-7 impact programs on Sustainable Forest Management and Food, Land use and Restoration

From L-R: Anja Gassner, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); Jeffrey Griffin, FAO; Volatiana Rahanitrinianina, Madagascar; Aboubacar Oularé, Guinea; and Theresa Castillion-Elder, Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO)

Güenter Mitlacher, WWF

Aboubacar Oulare, Guinea

Jeffrey Griffin, FAO

Theresa Castillion-Elder, ACTO

Volatiana Rahanitrinianina, Madagascar

Closing session

Jamie Cavalier, GEF Secretariat

David Ainsworth, CBD Secretariat

Around the venue