In news: Being launched at COP27 by the Global Mangrove Alliance (GMA) in collaboration with the UN Climate Change High-level Champions as a unified global approach towards mangrove conservation.
About Mangrove Breakthrough (MB):
The Mangrove Breakthrough is a science-based, measurable, and achievable global initiative that provides a framework for public-private players to join forces through a coalition and strengthen their actions every year, in every sector and in scaling up investment in mangrove protection and restoration.
It is built on the Breakthrough Agenda launched at COP26, and the Global Mangrove Alliance
It is part of a set of Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda of the 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.
Aim: To catalyse the financial support needed to scale proven solutions by working to channel finance to the ground through the Global Mangrove Alliance.
It aims to secure the future of 15 million hectares of mangroves globally by 2030 through collective action on:
Halting mangrove losses
Restoring half of recent mangrove losses
Doubling the protection of mangroves globally.
Ensuring sustainable long-term finance for all existing mangroves by achieving an investment of 4 billion USD by 2030
Current signatories to the breakthrough include Global Mangrove Alliance members, the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA), and Salesforce, among many others.
Significance of mangroves:
Critical coastal ecosystems and are proven nature-based solutions to climate change.
Provide food, extreme weather protection, and livelihoods, while harbouring incredible biodiversity, building coastal resilience, and acting as immense carbon sinks
Stabilize shorelines and provide fish nurseries throughout tropical and warm temperate coasts.
About The Global Mangrove Alliance(GMA):
Formed in 2018 by
Conservation International (CI)
the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
Wetlands International
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
This partnership now includes over 30 member organizations
Aim of scaling up the recovery of mangroves through equitable and effective expansion of both mangrove protection and the restoration of former mangrove areas.
The GMA works worldwide in supportingresearch, advocacy, education and practical projects on the ground with local and community partners.
It is 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.
Global Mangrove Watch (GMW):
It is an online platform that provides the remote sensing data and real time information about changes and tools for monitoring mangroves across the world, and highlights why they are valuable.
Established in 2011 under the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Kyoto & Carbon Initiative by Aberystwyth University, solo Earth Observation and the International Water Management Institute.
Aims to provide open access geospatial information about mangrove extent and changes to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.
In collaboration with Wetlands International and with support from DOB Ecology, the first GMW baseline maps were released in 2018 at the Ramsar COP13.
The GMW maps also constitute the official mangrove datasets used by UNEP for reporting on Sustainable Development Goal 6.6.1 (change in the extent of water-related ecosystems over time).
