The symposium ''The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: best practices for repairing ecological integrity and enhancing human wellbeing'' will be held on 27 September 2023 at 10.30 (GMT+9:30) in Darwin, Australia, as part of the UN Decade pavilion in the context of the 10th World Conference on Ecological Restoration. Register here! 

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration offers an opportunity to substantially advance restoration practice, science, and policy, but to do so requires a shared vision of ecosystem restoration and the principles that underpin it, as well as clear standards for what constitutes best practice. Towards this end, UN Decade partners engaged in a multi-stage process to collaboratively develop principles and standards of practice for ecosystem restoration, based on existing published guidance from a broad range of restorative activities and input from over 400 experts in the field. The principles and standards provide the essential tenets of ecosystem restoration that should be followed to maximize net gain for native biodiversity, ecosystem health and integrity, and human well-being, across all biomes, sectors and regions.

The symposium will address the critical importance of a shared vision and standards of practice for achieving the mission of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, as well as best practices for assessing, planning, implementing, sustaining, monitoring and evaluating restoration projects. The session will then be the occasion to launch the final version of the Standards of Practice to guide Ecosystem Restoration. In the meantime, the Summary report of the Standards of Practice may be accessed here.