UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration runs from 2021 to 2030. Similar to other nature-related international decades, its purpose is to promote the United Nations’ environmental goals. It is intended to facilitate global cooperation for the restoration of degraded and destroyed ecosystems, and to foster efforts to combat climate change, safeguard biodiversity, promote food security, and secure water supply. While much focus is on promoting restoration activity by national governments, the UN also wishes to promote such efforts from other actors, ranging from the private sector and NGOsTooltip non-governmental organizations to regular individuals.

Following on from the 2011–2020 United Nations Decade on Biodiversity, the decade on Ecosystem Restoration was launched in June 2021. The United Nations called for countries to follow through on existing pledges to restore a total area similar to the size of China by 2030. They also say the overarching goal of the decade is to catalyse a nature-friendly movement that lasts beyond the 10-year timeframe.

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