To offer clarity on how policymakers can build on the interlinkages between solutions that can promote health and sustainable landscapes, the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) and Youth in Landscapes Initiative (YIL) facilitated the co-creation of a report that summarizes guidance on harnessing the power of landscapes to achieve biodiversity and restoration ambitions for 2030 and 2050: One World, One Health: Recommendations to harness the power of landscapes.

This report brings together perspectives from the GLF community as represented in the GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference sessions which took place on 28 and 29 October 2020 and inputs from partner and youth organizations. To ensure the full inclusion of an intra- and intergenerational justice perspective in the final output, the synthesis and drafting processes were co-led by GLF, YIL and delegates representing 26 youth organizations.

The report confronts such realities as the mass extinction that could see up to a million species disappear from the Earth in the coming decades and advances seven recommendations that represent calls to action from the GLF community:

• Tear down silos that separate public health and environmental sectors, (something the pandemic has proven essential).

•  Re-focus harmful subsidies worth billions of dollars; stimulate youth employment in conservation and restoration (USD 500 billion a year spent on fossil fuel subsidies alone).

•  Return ownership of food systems, value-chain decision making, and financing mechanisms to local communities.

• Give the narrative back to communities that have the most at stake from climate, health, and biodiversity crises.

The recommendations contribute to the work around the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, which is to be adopted by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) this year. It will also contribute to the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) and play a significant role in promoting solutions regarding sustainable use and conservation of our planet’s biodiversity.

Click here to download the report.