The Restoration Initiative
Cameroon, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Pakistan, Sao Tome and Principe, Tanzania
This initiative aims to overcome barriers to large-scale restoration, sharing know-how on improving awareness, monitoring, supporting businesses, and drawing investments.
To date, over 420,000 people have directly benefited from the programme, while mitigating over 30 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent – equivalent to emissions from eight coal-fired power plants in one year.
The Restoration Initiative is designed to translate global restoration goals to local contexts – for example by boosting local restoration economies, such as nurseries, training smallholder farmers and pastoralists, removing invasive species and informing government policies.
The initiative in numbers
318,845
Hectares under restoration
483,245
Hectares to be restored by 2030
“The Initiative demonstrates how governments, communities, and strategic partners can collaborate to address barriers to restoring ecosystems’ capacity to provide sustained food and water, harbour biodiversity, and become climate resilient. The Restoration Initiative is a call to action for all stakeholders to scale up investment and ambition so that ecosystem restoration can underspin a just, nature-positive future.”
Grethel Aguilar, IUCN Director General
