Over 2.5 million ha of forest landscape will be restored by countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia under the Bonn Challenge by 2030. The commitment was made by Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan at the first Ministerial Roundtable on Forest Landscape Restoration and the Bonn Challenge in the Caucasus and Central Asia, held on 21-22 June 2018 in Astana, Kazakhstan. The meeting also adopted the Astana Resolution, committing the region to go beyond 2.5 million ha, and strengthen partnerships and regional cooperation to this end.

Restore over 2.5 million ha of forest landscape in the Caucasus and Central Asia under the Bonn Challenge by 2030.

Among others forest-related ministries and agencies in Armenia (Ministry of Nature Protection), Georgia (Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture), Kazakhstan (Ministry of Agriculture), Kyrgyzstan (State Agency on Environment Protection), Tajikistan (Forestry Agency) and Uzbekistan (State Committee on Forestry); IUCN, ICRAF, German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

The initial Astana Ministerial Roundtable (http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=47712) was organized by UNECE/FAO in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan, IUCN and the German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
The follow-up on the pledges and country initiatives is under the main responsibility of the Secretariat of the Bonn Challenge at IUCN and supported by UNECE/FAO. Results will be reported under the Bonn Challenge and displayed at http://www.bonnchallenge.org/ and https://infoflr.org/

The restoration of over 2.5 million ha of forest landscape in the Caucasus and Central Asia under the Bonn Challenge by 2030 will reestablish all ecosystem services and functions benefiting directly the livelihoods of people and contributing adaptation and mitigation to climate change.

The Astana Resolution: http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/timber/meetings/2018/20180621/Resolution_ENG.pdf
Commitments by 6 countries towards the Bonn Challenge: http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/timber/meetings/2018/20180621/Astana_Roundtable_Summary_Report_ENG.pdf

The international Bonn Challenge bundles so far 56 commitments and has established a platform for exchange of best practices and peer-learning.

Over 2.5 million ha of forest landscape will be restored by countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia under the Bonn Challenge by 2030. The commitment was made by Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan at the first Ministerial Roundtable on Forest Landscape Restoration and the Bonn Challenge in the Caucasus and Central Asia, held on 21-22 June 2018 in Astana, Kazakhstan. The meeting also adopted the Astana Resolution, committing the region to go beyond 2.5 million ha, and strengthen partnerships and regional cooperation to this end.

Ministers and country representatives used the opportunity to align national and regional restoration and planting efforts with the international Bonn Challenge – a global effort to bring 350 million ha of degraded and deforested land into restoration by 2030. The Bonn Challenge was launched in 2011 by the government of Germany and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=47712
https://www.unece.org/?id=48965
http://www.bonnchallenge.org/
https://infoflr.org/