Initiative 20x20
General
| Name of initiative | Initiative 20x20 |
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| LPAA initiative | No |
| NAZCA Initiative | No |
| Website address | http://www.wri.org/our-work/project/initiative-20x20 |
| Related initiatives | Commitments to Initiative 20x20 are in support of the Bonn Challenge, a global target to restore 150 million hectares of degraded land by the year 2020 through forest and landscape restoration. The commitments to Initiative 20x20 will contribute to the New York Declaration on Forests that builds on and extends the Bonn Challenge to restore 350 million hectares by 2030. |
| Starting year | 2014 |
| End year | |
| Secretariat | World Resources Institute
Walter Vergara (Lead of the Initiative) 10 G Street NE Suite 800 Washington, DC 20002, USA |
| Organisational structure | The initiative is supported by the World Resources Institute (WRI), International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). |
| Geographical coverage | Latin America and The Caribbean |
| Name of lead organisation | World Resources Institute |
| Type of lead organisation | Academic/Research institution |
| Location/Nationality of lead organisation | United States of America |
Description
| Description | Initiative 20x20 is a country-led effort to bring 20 million hectares of land in Latin America and the Caribbean into restoration by 2020. The initiative—launched formally at COP 20 in Lima—will support the Bonn Challenge, a global commitment to restore 150 million hectares of land around the world by 2020 and the New York Declaration on Forests that seeks to restore 350 million hectares by 2030.
The initiative will support reforestation (natural and assisted), conservation of forests as well as avoided deforestation as elements of an integral restoration process. Cognizant of the various degrees of land degradation in the region, the initiative will also support efforts to recover land functionality (soil conservation and recovery; carbon storage; water retention and stable hydrologies; biodiversity conservation and recovery) through agroforestry, sylvo pastures, and other sustainable land use schemes. |
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| Objectives | 20 million hectares of land restores in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2020 |
| Activities | Inspire national commitments to restoration by engaging in a robust dialogue with Ministers of Agriculture and Environment in the region;
Make the economic case by assessing the societal benefits from restoration and avoided deforestation; and Establish a financial mechanism that allows private sector impact investors to fund restoration projects. Three states and four NGO's participating in Initiative 20x20, committing a total of about 27.7 million hectares to place into restoration by 2020. Mexico: 8.5 million hectares between the Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Environment Peru: 3.2 million hectares through the Ministry of Agriculture State of Mato Grosso (Brazil): 2.9 million hectares Nicaragua: 2.8 million hectares Bosques Modelo: 1.6 million hectares Guatemala: 1.2 million hectare contribution from the 2014 UN Climate Summit Honduras: 1 million hectares from the Ministry of Environment Colombia: 1 million hectares through the Ministry of Agriculture El Salvador: 1 million hectare through the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources Costa Rica: 1 million hectares through the Ministry of Environment Argentina: 1 million hectares Conservacion Patagonica: 1 million hectares Ecuador: 0.5 million hectares through the Ministry of Environment Chile: 0.5 million hectares State of São Paulo (Brazil): 300,000 (.3m) hectares American Bird Conservancy: 100,000 (0.1m) hectares State of Espírito Santo (Brazil): 80,000 (0.08m) hectares |
| One or two success stories achieved |
Monitoring and Impacts
| Function of initiative | Implementation, Political dialogue | ||||
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| Activity of initiative | Goal setting (ex-ante), Awareness raising and outreach, Advocacy | ||||
| Indicators |
Goal setting (ex-ante) — Mitigation - Forestry
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| How are you tracking progress of your initiative | Under the initiative a major monitoring effort in envisioned, capable of documenting the restoration process in some detail. Key elements in this effort include remote sensing, on the ground sampling and modeling. | ||||
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Participants
| Participants | Number | Names | ||||||||
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| Members | 26 | |||||||||
| Companies | 0 | |||||||||
| Business organisations | 11 | |||||||||
| Research and educational organisations | 0 | |||||||||
| Non-governmental organisations | 4 | AFR100, The Restoration Diagnostic, Re-Greening, The Atlas of Forest and Landscape Restoration Opportunities.
AFR100 is a country-led effort to bring 100 million hectares of land in Africa into restoration by 2030. The initiative—launched formally at COP 21 in Paris— will support the Bonn Challenge , a global commitment to restore 150 million hectares of land around the world by 2020, the New York Declaration on Forests that builds on and extends the Bonn Challenge to 350 million hectares by 2030 and the African Resilient Landscapes Initiative (ARLI), an initiative to promote integrated landscape management with the goal of adapting to and mitigating climate change. The Restoration Diagnostic is a structured method for identifying which key success factors for restoration are already in place, which are partially in place, and which are missing within a country or landscape that has restoration opportunities. | ||||||||
| National states | 11 | Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Argentina, Ecuador, Chile | ||||||||
| Governmental actors | 0 | |||||||||
| Regional / state / county actors | 0 | |||||||||
| City / municipal actors | 0 | |||||||||
| Intergovernmental organisations | 0 | |||||||||
| Financial Institutions | 0 | |||||||||
| Faith based organisations | 0 | |||||||||
| Other members | 0 | |||||||||
| Supporting partners | 0 | |||||||||
| Number of members in the years |
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| Have only national states as participators | No | |||||||||
Theme
| Transport | Agriculture | Forestry | Business | Financial institutions | Buildings | Industry | Waste | Cities and subnational governments | Short Term Pollutants | International maritime transport | Energy Supply | Fluorinated gases | Energy efficiency | Renewable energy | Supply chain emission reductions | Adaptation | Other | Resilience | Innovation | Energy Access and Efficiency | Private Finance |
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| No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Not only have national states as participators