As biodiversity rapidly decreases, ecosystem restoration is becoming an ever increasing priority. This is why the United Nations has launched the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and is calling on everyone to join #GenerationRestoration. This campaign aims to prevent, halt and reverse ecosystem degradation globally, both on land and in oceans, in order to combat poverty, climate change and prevent mass extinction. ICLEI is proud to be an official global partner of the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
ICLEI Members and projects are striving towards establishing initiatives to promote biodiversity, and benefit communities. One such project, NetworkNature, facilitates and amplifies nature-based solutions (NbS) that create both ecological benefits by maintaining biodiversity, as well as provide benefits for human well-being. In the fall of 2021, NetworkNature hosted a semester theme related to Ecosystem restoration which fathered latest findings and best practices from leading experts.
Learn more about the UN Decade on Ecosystem restoration here. Learn more about the semester on Ecosystem Restoration here.