Nature restoration: Implementation needs to triple to meet Kunming-Montreal Framework targets (UNEP/FAO)

"Countries have committed to restore approximately 1 billion hectares, but implementation needs to triple to meet one of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework's targets, which aim to restore 30% of degraded ecosystems," according to Yelena Finegold, one of the authors of the new UN Environment Programme's report, released on 28 October 2026.

The analysis, entitled ‘Nature's comeback — Scaling ecosystem restoration for people and planet’, provides the “first comprehensive global assessment of progress towards restoring degraded ecosystems, from forests to fields, from rivers to wetlands, oceans and coasts,” says Doreen Robinson, Deputy Director of UNEP’s Ecosystems Division.

This is also “the first time we assess it alongside the Paris climate goals, the UNCCD’s Land…