climate change and biodiversity loss. The inclusion of wetland targets in the CBD’s Global Biodiversity Framework, resulting from engaging in diverse lobby groups, makes Wetlands International more relevant than ever and provides significant leverage for public and private sector investments in the coming decade.
floodplain habitats under production (largely cattle raising / livestock) in the Paraná Delta in Argentina and the Pantanal wetlands in Brazil. • As a result of our advocacy efforts, the EU is shifting its stance and accepting the significant role that improved peatland protection, increased paludiculture (wet peatland farming) and carbon farming can bring to the Green Deal implementation. Impact Area - Reduced Climate Risks • Our Building with Nature Indonesia initiative was praised by the UN and given the inaugural World Restoration Flagship award. • We enhanced the design of a wetland offset project of a multi-billion investment infrastructure project in Manila Bay, Philippines, such that it will restore thousands of hectares of healthy mangroves while enhancing resilience and livelihoods of local communities. • In the High Andes of Peru, we worked with the herder communities to change their land management practices, resulting in 2,400 hectares of peatlands under improved livestock grazing management offering sustainable income in harmony with nature. Setbacks Not everything went according to plan. The war in Ukraine directly affected our peatland restoration efforts in Russia that were put on hold. The ensuing global energy crises led to higher costs requiring us to deliver the same ambitious impact with fewer resources. Further, the tight and competitive job market is limited our ability to attract the required capacity to deliver our programmes. DUTCH POSTCODE LOTTERY Dutch Postcode Lottery support has enabled us, through targeted seed investments, to build strategic global and regional partnerships to mobilise and upscale the safeguarding and restoration of wetlands. In 2022, highlights include our Building with Nature Indonesia initiative recognised by the UN as one of its inaugural World Restoration Flagships, and successfully influencing the design for a large wetland offset project to compensate for a multi- billion infrastructure project in Manila Bay, Philippines. These results, among others, were made possible through strengthening our fundraising approaches and capacity, developing new donor relationships, investing in staff capabilities in our communications and technical teams, and creating outreach materials and tools to influence government and business.
ACHIEVEMENTS
We are proud of the results that were achieved at global, regional, national and local level. Highlights include:
Impact Area - Healthy Wetlands • Our influential 2022 State of the World’s Mangroves report that led to the launch of the Mangrove Breakthrough at COP27 aiming to leverage USD 4 billion to secure the future of 15 million hectares of mangroves globally by 2030. • A new 10 year partnership with the Swedish International Development Agency to upscale healthy, biodiverse, and well managed wetland landscapes globally by 2030, contributing to climate resilience and environmental, social and economic sustainability. • A new Ramsar protected Wetland in Argentina, covering an area of 350.000 hectares of valuable peatlands, a key step towards its conservation. Impact Area - Resilient Wetland Communities • We reached 143,000 coastal zone and natural resource management professionals, raising awareness about the contribution of mangroves to food security and opportunities for improving production systems through large-scale mangrove restoration. • We worked with land users to implement better management practices on more than 46,000 hectares of
This chapter presents our 2022 achievements. These are organised along our three streams of work (Coasts and Deltas, Rivers and Lakes, and Peatlands) and in relation to the ambitions laid out in our Strategic Intent 2020-2030.
The section below summarises progress in 2022 towards the 10-year targets.
All of our achievements are the result of our Wetlands International teams working around the world with our many partners in local, national and international networks across the world. The achievements selected below are part of a long- term results framework and build partly on activities already started in previous years.
OUR SCORING SYSTEM
We highlight those achievements where Wetlands International’s role or contribution has been significant.
On track to exceed target (we will achieve the target before 2030)
Our progress At the end of 2022, we have achieved important results building a solid foundation for future mobilisation and upscaling towards our 2030 targets. Shaping, collating and sharing knowledge, building capacity, developing partnerships with governments and non-state actors to scale up, and securing funding to support our work - are critical to our long- term success and central to our upscaling strategy. Large-scale, partnership-based, long-term wetland landscape initiatives are now underway in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America which will ultimately secure conservation and development benefits for people and nature across millions of hectares. Sometimes the number of hectares we have directly safeguarded and restored so far is relatively small, but designed to trigger landscape-scale impact through the mobilisation of other actors. Where possible we mention the indirect landscape-scale impact we envision. In the last quarter of 2022, we capitalised on global convention meetings (Ramsar COP14, UNFCCC COP27, and CBD COP15) to drive impact by positioning wetlands more than ever as a crucial solution to the intertwined challenges of
Substantial progress, but more time is needed to reach our target We expect to achieve the target by 2030
“Dutch Postcode Lottery funding has had a catalytic effect on our work, enabling us to generate much larger funding, influence and impacts needed to safeguard and restore the world’s wetlands”
So far, there is no significant overall progress
Jane Madgwick, CEO.
The situation is deteriorating and we can’t manage to make improvements
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