PUBLIC FUNDING FOR FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION - ARE DONORS WELL ALIGNED WITH CURRENT CHALLENGES?

to boost our resilience and prevent the emergence and spread of future diseases.” The second component of the • C limate change EU Biodiversity Strategy - ‘An EU Nature Restoration Plan: The Green Climate Fund (GCF) as the key instrument under restoring ecosystems across land and sea’ - refers to the need the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate to improve the legal framework for restora. [...] One of the approaches funded by focus the long-term and sustained recovery of biodiverse the GCF is ‘improved use of land and reforestation”” Latest and resilient nature; achieving the EU’s climate mitigation guidance from the GCF for the FLU area, highlights the and climate adaptation objectives and meeting international need to “restore forests and other degraded land to healthy commitments. [...] and ‘results areas’ (such as the Infrastructure and built environ- ecosystem one in particular) (GCF, 14 - PUBLIC FUNDING FOR FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION - WWF 2022 THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY The Global Environment Facility the GEF highlighted the impor- tion started to appear as a promi- (GEF) was set up in 1991, on the tance of the nexus between climate nent theme in the GEF. [...] 15 THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION The European Commission is the The EU aims to be climate neutral instrument: the Neighbourhood executive branch of the European by 2050, and also to reduce its Development and International Union (EU). [...] It is in the framework of December 2020, the Council for EU countries and their part- both the New Green Deal and the and the European Parliament ners) and ODA.