Add to CalendarAfrica has the potential to pave the way for the global climate, biodiversity and land degradation neutrality goals. Yet the continent continues to face the devastating impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss, resource exploitation and land degradation, despite contributing the least to these global crises.
This plenary will convene leading African and global thought-leaders to build a common understanding of the interlinkages between global climate, biodiversity and land challenges, and why local landscape-level solutions coming from and within Africa are critical to the success of global development and environmental goals. While recognizing the crucial role and needs of people in these solutions, the session will address the disjunct between top-down global targets and local action.
The plenary will also unpack key pathways, opportunities and necessary conditions to accelerate global impact through landscape-level solutions in Africa which account for nearly half of the global restoration commitments and pledges through mechanisms such as the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative and the Land Degradation Neutrality targets.
