The Mangrove Breakthrough
A Call to Action
The ability of mangroves to provide food, extreme weather protection, and livelihoods, while harboring incredible biodiversity, building coastal resilience, and acting as immense carbon sinks makes mangrove conservation and restoration an effective strategy to have in our arsenal to combat climate change. With coastal communities already facing the impacts of a changing climate, we urgently need to invest in conserving and restoring mangroves now as nature-based solutions to adapt to this changing planet.
The Mangrove Breakthrough is part of a set of Marrakech Partnership Adaptation and Resilience Breakthroughs which collectively define global milestones and high-impact solutions to reduce climate risks, particularly in vulnerable communities, through adaptation action. It aims to aims to catalyze the financial support needed to scale proven solutions by working to channel finance to the ground through the Global Mangrove Alliance: a world-wide collaboration between NGOs, governments, academics and communities working together towards a global vision for accelerating change and building a host of opportunities for coastal peoples and biodiversity
around the planet.
The Breakthrough launched at UNFCCC COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt together with an alliance of early supporters and partners.
The Mangrove Breakthrough Resources:
The Breakthrough Guiding Principles
1t.org
Bangladesh Environment and Development Society
Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory
Blue Forest
Blue Ventures
Conservation International
Earth Security
Fair Carbon
Friends of Ocean Action
Gallifrey Foundation
Global Wetlands Project
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
IUCN Mangrove Specialist Group
Invemar
Mangrove Action Project
National Audubon Society
The Nature Conservancy
Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance
Pew Charitable Trusts
University of Queensland
Rare
Rio De Janeiro, State Government of Brazil
Salesforce
Shenzhen Mangrove Wetland Conservation Foundation
Smithsonian Institution (scientific partner)
The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Vlinder
Wetlands International
World Economic Forum and Friends of Ocean Action
World Wildlife Fund
The Zoological Society of London
Please indicate your interest in joining the Mangrove Breakthrough by contacting:
Ignace Beguin at ignacebeguin@climatechampions.team
and Benjamin Christ at b.christ@mangrovealliance.org
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