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TunisiaNew Union for the Mediterranean project launched to implement forest and landscape restoration
The UfM Secretariat, in joint efforts with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN), are launching the project “Scaling up forest and landscape restoration to restore biodiversity and promote joint mitigation and adaptation approaches in the Mediterranean”. The project will be initially implemented in Lebanon and Morocco. It involves multiple partners in the region and foresees, from its very initiation, a potential implementation in other Mediterranean countries.
The implementation of this project will contribute to the restoration of ecosystems, adaptation to climate change and preservation of biodiversity. At the same time, this will have a direct impact on the local population, especially in rural areas benefitting from richer ecosystems.
The project will run over a four-year period, with both a regional and a national level. At the national level, activities will be conducted in preselected sites in Morocco and Lebanon, with the aim to implement Forest and Landscape Restoration. At the regional level, technical assistance and capacity-building activities will be offered to the UfM Member States willing to implement Forest and Landscape Restoration in their own countries to achieve their National Determined Contributions in the context of the Paris Agreement. The 6th Mediterranean Forest Week of Lebanon (Broummana, 1-5 April 2019) will provide the opportunity to present the regional context of the project.
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Lebanon
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