What is the potential of forest conservation, sustainable use and restoration to address climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity and ecosystem services benefits for human well-being? This sub-theme will review the advances made on nature-based solutions in relation to the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and aim to inform relevant international processes of the Rio Conventions, i.e. the UNFCCC (NDCs of the Paris Agreement), UNCCD (Land Degradation Neutrality) and CBD (post-2020 global biodiversity framework).
To inform these processes, the focus will be on relevant practical experience and modalities to generate insights on (1) how forests can contribute to the implementation of relevant international processes, and (2) how the ambition of forest-related nature-based solutions to these processes can be enhanced.
