The Decade
What is the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration?
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030 is designed as the global movement that can end poverty, hunger, malnutrition, gender inequality and the degradation of ecosystems by harnessing the power of nature and local communities.
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KNOWLEDGE
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Restore our future: Impact and Potential of Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) harnesses the power of nature to…
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Effective ecosystem restoration to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and food insecurity: Scaling up through the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
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Capacity, Knowledge and Learning Action Plan for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
The Capacity, Knowledge and Learning Action Plan is one of…
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Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (FERM) user guide
FERM is a geospatial platform and a registry of restoration…
NEWS
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Meet these 45 environmental influencers coming together in 2026 (EN·SP·FR·PT)
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What is regenerative grazing, and what can it do for rangelands?
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Designing community-driven impact metrics for landscape restoration
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From sovereign ancestral roots bloom networks of care: Future visions for Latin American landscapes
30 January 2026
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Nature is an important part of the solution: conserving and restoring ecosystems can prevent further degradation.
Elizabeth Mrema
Executive Secretary, UN Convention on Biological Diversity
The Decade has so many co-benefits for SDGs that go way beyond climate change. Restoration includes measures to create green jobs, help biodiversity, help farm income, stabilize water supply for big cities, stabilize food supply.
Tim Christophersen
Chair, UN Environment Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration
Like the rivers, we must continue to flow on - and the goal for this generation is restoration. It’s time to reconnect with nature, feel it, and act immediately
Niria Alicia Gracia
Xicana human rights advocate and Indigenous leader
Degraded landscapes negatively impact 3.2 million people and cost up to 10 percent of many countries’ GDP in lost ecosystem services….We need to act now. The situation is urgent. Time is not on our side.
Sir Robert Watson
Environmental scientist
Coordination adapts to the progress of the restoration, making it evolve. The process is long, that's why it requires an active collaboration of different stakeholders from the government and private sector.
Julien Noël Rakotoarisoa
Director General of Environmental Governance, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Madagascar
We have seen more than 100 years of destruction of ecosystems, especially forests, and now it’s time to enter into 100 years of restoration – and this might be the first decade.
Jochen Flasbarth
German State Secretary for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety





