About Us
For the first time, UNCCD has a dedicated pavilion focused on restoration. It features 150 speakers, 66 partners, 43 side events, 28 cutting-edge innovations, 4 fireside chats, 4 product launches, the first AI generated movie about land restoration, a virtual museum exhibition and a game. The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration stand will also be hosted in the Pavilion. All events presented in the pavilion will be livestreamed, except the movie screenings.
The Restoration Pavilion is not just about communicating technical ideas and scientific findings in novel ways. The Restoration Pavilion is a vibrant space where passion meets the restoration challenge to inspire big, bold and engaging ideas from the changemakers, visionaries and forward thinkers that are taking land restoration to scale.
The Pavilion is hosted by UNCCD’s G20 Global Land Initiative (G20 GLI), whose ambition is to scale land restoration globally in all terrestrial ecosystems to achieve a 50 percent reduction in degraded land by 2040.
Established in 2020 by G20 Countries during the Saudi Presidency, G20 GLI collaborates with the restoration community to showcase best practices and build capacity, and empower civil society and engage the private sector. It is radar-focused on five restoration challenges: legislation, finance, human resource capacity, land tenure and a restoration economy/industry.
Join the events in person, virtually or through social.
In person: UNCCD COP16 Blue Zone
Livestream: @g20land initiative YouTube channel or via Zoom: register for individual events here:
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Ambition
By 2030, an estimated 1.5 billion hectares of land, an area one and a half times the size of the United States, needs to be restored to recover degraded areas to keep healthy land in balance.
But more needs to be done to keep both people and the planet resilient considering the growing climate change threats, including the destruction of ecosystems and the loss of biological diversity.
Visionary leaders, passionate activists, citizen and data-driven scientist as well as solutions-driven innovators and changemakers are uniting around one ambition: to scale land restoration by restoring degraded lands in all ecosystems to achieve a 50 percent reduction in degraded land by 2040.
The events at the Restoration Pavilion will be livestreamed. Tune in from anywhere in the world or register online to be part of the conversation. Absence does not equate to silence, so don’t miss out! Join, share your ideas and be part of the conversation!
Events
There is an exciting array of speakers and event formats for everyone – from panels and fireside chats to roundtables and virtual conversations. International and national governments, public and private sectors as well as non-governmental organizations and celebrities uniting to answer the call to restore degraded lands. Plan your Restoration Pavilion experience now using the calendar!
Product Launches
New reports and innovations will be launched at the Restoration Pavilion. They include:
- A report on the status of restoration commitments to be published by the International Union for Nature Conservation
- The Youth Consultation Report: Regreening Africa, published by the Global Landscapes Forum.
Round Table
Faith communities are developing a 15-year G20 GLI engagement plan for land restoration. This 90-minute roundtable session is the last opportunity for faith leaders and interested parties to refine and enhance the draft 2025-2040 Faith Engagement Plan. The consultation aims is to ensure plan fully captures the unique strengths and diverse perspectives of faith traditions in addressing land degradation, adding to the inputs gathered through extensive consultations in the last several months.
Save land: United for Land Museum Exhibition
UNCCD-G20 GLI, together with the Bundeskunsthalle (Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany), will on 5 December 2024 open a Museum Exhibition titled, Save Land: United for Land, which will run for six months. Take a tour of the Virtual Museum Exhibition through this link from 5 December 2025.
United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
Enjoy an immersive experience of mountain gorilla’s in Uganda at the United Nations Decade and Ecosystem Restoration stand in the Pavilion.
