One Earth joins the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

One Earth is now an official Actor for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030, joining a global movement working to prevent, halt, and reverse the degradation of ecosystems around the world.

What is the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration?

Led jointly by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is a global rallying call to protect and revive ecosystems worldwide, from forests and grasslands to wetlands, savannahs, marine and coastal ecosystems, and even urban environments. It runs through 2030, aligning with the deadline for the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The mission is ambitious: to restore hundreds of millions of hectares of degraded terrestrial and marine ecosystems while rallying support for healthier ecosystems as a foundation for climate action, biodiversity conservation, food security, and poverty eradication.

As the UN Decade emphasizes, ecosystem restoration can help combat climate change, prevent mass extinction, and support communities around the world, but achieving restoration at the necessary scale requires governments, businesses, scientists, civil society, communities, and individuals to all play a part.

What this partnership means

Joining as an Actor means One Earth is now formally part of this worldwide network, alongside thousands of restoration initiatives already driving change on the ground.

Through the partnership, One Earth will help amplify the UN Decade and its mission by sharing restoration stories and content through the UN Decade’s Digital Hub and across our own platforms and networks. We will also support communication and outreach efforts and explore opportunities to collaborate on public events focused on ecosystem restoration.

It’s a natural extension of work we’re already doing. Ecosystem Restoration sits at the heart of One Earth’s approach to Nature Conservation, and this partnership strengthens our ability to connect research, projects, and stories with a global movement working toward the same goal.

Ecosystem Restoration in the One Earth Solutions Framework

Ecosystem Restoration is a sub-pillar of Nature Conservation within the One Earth Solutions Framework, which maps more than 75 science-backed climate solutions across three pillars: Energy Transition, Nature Conservation, and Regenerative Agriculture. 

This sub-pillar brings together solution pathways that help degraded ecosystems recover, including:

• Reforestation
• Forest Recovery
• Sustainable Forestry
• Grasslands
• Wetland Restoration
• Coastal Restoration
• Mangrove Restoration
• Species Rewilding

Healthy, restored ecosystems do more than support biodiversity. They increase carbon sequestration, regulate water cycles, improve ecosystem resilience, and help communities adapt to a changing climate. This makes restoration an essential tool for addressing the interconnected climate and biodiversity crises.

Be a part of #GenerationRestoration

Restoring ecosystems on the scale our planet needs is an enormous undertaking, but it is already happening. Forests are being regrown, wetlands revived, coastlines restored, habitats reconnected, and species returned to landscapes where they once played vital ecological roles.

The UN Decade calls this global movement #GenerationRestoration, recognizing that everyone has a role to play in protecting healthy ecosystems and helping degraded ones recover.

Restoration is possible, and together, we can help accelerate it worldwide.