Media advisory - COP27 Panel and Report Launch

COP27 Media Advisory  

What: A panel event and report launch on Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), a Natural Climate Solution that could achieve meaningful scale through integrated landscape management to meet our world's twin emergencies of global warming and hunger.  

Event info: A Spotlight on Natural Climate Solutions: Scaling Land Restoration to Benefit People and Nature Led by World Vision, Rainforest Alliance, and 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People.  

Report launch: Award winning agronomist, Tony Rinaudo, will release a new World Vision report “Restore Land, Restore Climate” that provides additional evidence of how farmer managed natural regeneration is a “secret weapon” in the fight against climate change.   

When:   Thursday, 16 November at 15:00 – 16:30, Osiris Room.

Who:   

• Tony Rinaudo, Senior Climate Action Advisor, World Vision Australia  
• Nadege Nzoyem, Central Africa Director of the Rainforest Alliance  
• Nico Janssen, Agricultural Livelihoods Program Lead, IKEA Foundation  
• Tirhas Mebrahtu Hindaya, Designated National Authority to CDM, Gov’t of Ethiopia  
• Paul Chatterton, Founder and CEO of Landscape Finance Lab and 1000 Landscapes  Steering Committee member  

 There is no single answer to the climate crisis, but World Vision’s Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a method of re-growing forests that improves soil, restores livelihoods, and mitigates climate change. It has proven successful in restoring lands in Australia and Africa, increasing sequestration of carbon, and its techniques are replicable and scalable.    

 As a solution to the climate crisis, FMNR is an evidence-based approach of re-greening degraded landscapes that involves the selection and management of trees and shrubs growing from living stumps and seeds to achieve rapid, low-cost, and scalable rehabilitation of forest.   

 The 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People (1000L) initiative offers a community-based approach that links livelihood improvements with ecosystem restoration. It provides a clear and proven pathway using a framework called integrated landscape management to scale up FMNR to be a significant contributor to climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts. 1000L’s multi-sectoral methods could propel FMNR into nature-based solution strategies being deployed across continents.  

 Tony is known as “The Forest Maker,” and has championed FMNR since 1983. Through partnering with communities, Tony has revived millions of hectares from desolate dry ground to thriving arable, grazing and forestland across more than twenty countries in Africa alone. This rehabilitation brings with it increased food security and sustainability for thousands of communities. Rinaudo’s work has earned him numerous awards and accolades including being named a 2018 Right Livelihood Laureate (often referred to as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”).     

•  For additional questions, please contact Susannah Cernojevich, Communications Lead for World Vision International at COP27 via Susannah_Cernojevich@wvi.org or +1 202 276 2322.

•  To schedule an interview with Tony, please contact Silvia Holten on +49 175 2959758       

 World Vision is a Christian humanitarian and development organisation dedicated to working with children, families and their communities to reach their full potential by tackling the root causes of poverty and injustice.   World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender.  For more information, please visit www.wvi.org or follow us on Twitter @WorldVision.