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E-book Urban Forests : A Global Perspective
Prominent international bodies have also recognized the importance of urban forests. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) Sixth Assessment 2022 Report, for example, highlighted the value of ecologically sustainable urban planning and infrastructure design. Interventions such as green roofs, park networks, urban forests, urban agriculture and water-sensitive designs emerged as key tools for both mitigation and adaptation to climate change within urban environments. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, which will continue until 2030, identifies urban settings as landscapes requiring restoration, a perspective that resonated at the XV World Forestry Congress in May 2022, where the role of urban forests in biodiversity conservation was emphasized in many high-level interventions. FAO and its regional partners have boosted networking and knowledge exchange by organizing regional meetings across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Mediterranean area. The European Forum on Urban Forestry has similarly pushed forward the regional dialogue and exchange in Europe, continually fuelling the regional networking and information dissemination. The evolution of the global discourse around nature-based solutions, with urban forestry as a key component, has also been noteworthy. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), adopted in 2022 by 196 countries at the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Montreal, is a notable example. This framework aims
to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 and advocate for the application of nature-based solutions to reach this ambitious goal, in particular, Target 12, Increase the area of, access to, and benefits from green and blue spaces, for human health and well-being in urban areas and other densely populated areas.
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