HIGHLIGHTS
“Wetlands 4 Resilience”
Defining benchmark conditions for Voluntary Carbon Markets We published a timely report which reflects on the larger debate of using voluntary carbon markets for land-use projects and defines benchmark conditions for channelling carbon finance to wetland interventions. Social-environmental integrity is the all-decisive touchstone for climate and market success. A supply of high-quality credits which are fair, equitable, and accepted by the leading carbon credit verification bodies needs to be secured along with the responsible corporate climate action. Wetlands International has long supported efforts to amplify financing to safeguard and restore wetlands. There is now increasing interest among governments as well as non-state actors in using carbon finance to help innovate and roll out Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in general, and wetland habitats in particular. Private sector funding must be mobilised at scale and at speed, and carbon markets offer a unique opportunity to channel investment into wetlands. We are committed to securing a transparent, equitable, and just carbon market to sustain, safeguard, and restore our precious wetlands.
A new 10-year partnership with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency In December we secured a new partnership with Sida to upscale healthy, biodiverse, and well-managed wetland landscapes globally by 2030. The ten-year ambition is to influence countries, institutions and sectors to shift approaches, policies and investments towards the regeneration of wetland landscapes. This responds to and helps to mobilise and bring substance to the existing global agendas set by Conventions and the SDGs. Specifically, we will fill the current knowledge and capacity gap on how to address wetlands and water resiliency in landscape regeneration processes, by designing and sharing a tested, accessible, step-wise approach. By showing and sharing results from a set of major wetland landscapes in frontrunner countries for wetland commitments, we aim to inspire, mobilise and upscale the global community to drive action forward for wetland recovery and resilience building. Further, we aim to influence the global community to set a conducive environment to facilitate capacity development, policies and investments for wetland landscapes worldwide. This will ultimately bring positive impact for biodiversity and vulnerable communities that depend on healthy wetland landscapes for their well-being and climate resilience. We will focus on large, iconic wetland landscapes and on influencing key processes - changes we would like to see happen - to create suitable conditions for wetland biodiversity and ecosystem functioning to recover, so building resilience at a landscape scale, as a foundation for sustainable development. In the long-term, the programme will benefit tens of millions of people who live in or nearby these large wetland landscapes; vulnerable lakes, rivers and deltas. By enhancing the supply and demand for holistic wetland landscape restoration, we will enable synergies to be realised between biodiversity conservation, healthy ecosystems and human rights, resulting in greater resilience to socio-economic shocks and climate change.
Building with Nature in Indonesia
UN recognises Building with Nature Indonesia with World Restoration Flagship award
The United Nations recognised the Building with Nature Indonesia initiative to protect Indonesia’s coast against flooding as one of its inaugural World Restoration Flagships. The project was selected as one of 10 pioneering efforts to revive the natural world, for its success in restoring mangrove forests to form a natural barrier against the sea, and improving the livelihoods of local communities. The announcement came as leaders gathered in Montreal, Canada for the UN Biodiversity Conference, where governments from around the world agreed to a new set of goals for nature over the next decade. The project was a joint effort between Wetlands International and the Indonesian government, and part of a larger collaboration that aims to advance the application of the Building with Nature approach, integrating Nature-Based Solutions in the design and implementation of water infrastructure practice, to boost the local economy, community resilience and biodiversity enhancement.
Instead of simply planting mangroves, the initiative applied an innovative approach using semi-permeable sea walls made of natural materials to trap mud and sediments. Mangroves then regrow naturally, with a survival rate of 70 percent – significantly higher than the 15-20 percent of planted mangroves. The work will increase the resilience of 70,000 people to impacts of climate change.
Read our report and position on voluntary carbon markets:
https://www.wetlands.org/publications/the-voluntary-carbon- market-for-safeguarding-and-restoring-our-wetlands/
For more information:
https://www.wetlands.org/news/un-recognises-building-with- nature-indonesias-efforts-with-world-restoration-flagship-award/
https://www.wetlands.org/publications/building-with-nature-in- indonesia-restoring-an-eroding-coastline-and-inspiring-action-at- scale-2015-2021/
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Wetlands International Annual Review 2022
Wetlands International Annual Review 2022
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