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Key Points
The Climate-ready Restoration partnership between Greening
Australia and the World Wide Fund for Nature takes a
science-led approach to developing large-scale, practical action to
help nature adapt to a changing climate.
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The partnership will experimentally test, validate and scale practical
climate-ready restoration approaches nationally, designed by eminent
scientists across Australia.
In an example of
just one of the series of innovative projects within the partnership, Greening
Australia and WWF-Australia will employ eco-evolutionary approaches to
identify 'super seed' that has enhanced climatic and fire-tolerant traits to
replant trees in bushfire-affected areas.
Climate-ready restoration activity will be experimental in nature, informed by
existing scientific and Indigenous ecological knowledge, and delivered using
scientific methodology that sets and tests hypotheses through data collection,
modelling and on-ground experimentation.
Importantly, these science-led
projects will be tested for their feasibility and ability to mainstream
on-ground delivery across the restoration sector.
The two organisations have committed a total of $20 million in initial climate-ready restoration projects and are calling for an additional $30 million in funding from the Australian public and private sectors to enable delivery of the total proposed program of work.
Brendan Foran, CEO, Greening Australia said,
"We are now living with recurring natural disasters across
Australia that are affecting people and
nature in ways and at scales that we have not previously witnessed – including
the devastating bushfires of 2019-2020.
"Our partnership for Climate-ready
Restoration is designed to improve the long-term resilience of the Australian
environment in the face of climate change. It is focused on biodiversity and
ecosystem restoration, with an emphasis on supporting communities and
strengthening the economy.
"To help us prepare for and adjust to both the
current effects of climate change and the predicted future impacts, we
urgently need to mainstream new, practical, nature-based solutions. This is
the driving mission of our partnership."
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| After the NSW south coast bushfires |
Dermot O'Gorman, CEO, WWF-Australia said, "This
program is not business as usual. We are already witnessing the impacts of a
changing climate and need to urgently think and act differently.
Science and
innovation that translates into on-ground delivery are at the heart of our
climate-ready approach. Many of the projects that will be funded by this
program will trial innovative technology or science-led approaches that aim to
accelerate delivery, amplify data collection and fast-track outcomes."
"This partnership is an example of how the environmental sector can lead collaboration between other strategic partners, universities, business, government and the community and find new ways to work together to ensure the Australian environment is climate-ready and our flora, fauna and communities are resilient to the changing climate," O'Gorman continued.
Adrian Turner, CEO Fire and Flood Resilience
initiative, Minderoo Foundation and one of the first partners to come onboard
said, "We are pleased to be part of this program, to pilot new ways to
regenerate landscapes in Australia's most
vulnerable regions so that they can be more resilient against fires.
"It is
essential that we work together across sectors to optimise our environments so
that we can reduce the devastating impact of these climate induced extreme
weather events in the future.
"The Climate-ready Restoration program is
directly aligned with the Healthy Landscapes Mission, which is part of a
national blueprint to reduce the harm caused by fires and floods and lift
resilience by 2025."
- Greening Australia
- World Wide Fund for Nature – Australia
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