Many CBD National Focal Points and national experts may not have fully explored the strategic contribution of local and subnational governments, private companies and other non-state actors to restoration in multi-stakeholder land-use and protection mosaics, as a mean to create corridors connecting several OECMs Biosphere Reserves and developing Area Based Conservation Measures (ABCM).
This pre-workshop was organized at the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro and was attended by approximately 100 participants and 15 panelists among whom we found:
- International Institute of Sustainability – PUC Rio
- UN Biodiversity – SCBD
- European Union Delegation to Brazil
- World Resource Institute Brazil
- ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
- European Commission
- World Resources Institute Brazil
