Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
Goal 15 is about conserving life on land. It is to protect and restore terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and stop biodiversity loss.
Earth’s ecosystems are vital for sustaining human life, they contribute to over half of global GDP and encompass diverse cultural, spiritual, and economic values.
However, the world is facing a triple crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss.
Between 2015 and 2019, at least 100 million hectares of healthy and productive land were degraded every year, impacting the lives of 1.3 billion people.
Agricultural expansion is the direct driver of almost 90 per cent of deforestation. This is in direct relation to our food systems, and oil palm harvesting accounted for 7 per cent of global deforestation from 2000 to 2018.
Global and regional efforts to sustain forest ecosystems as well as their social, economic and environmental functions are essential, in particular for developing countries and the tropics.
We need to shift humanity’s relationship with nature to achieve Goal 15, and realise that nature is the root of our life of earth. The recently adopted Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework provides renewed impetus for Goal 15, outlining four outcome- oriented goals to be achieved by 2050 and 23 targets to be achieved by 2030.
Name | Acronym | Founded | City HQ | Country/Territory HQ | Type I | Type II |
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Réseau des Femmes Africaines pour la Gestion Communautaire des forêts |
REFACOF | 2009 | Edéa | Cameroon | J | |
Réseau des Organisations de Solidarité Internationale Côte d'Ivoire |
ROSI Côte d'Ivoire | 2014 | Abidjan | Côte d'Ivoire | G | |
Réseau pour la Qualité de l'Environnement en Afrique Sub-Saharienne |
AFRICACLEAN | 2002 | Dakar | Senegal | G | |
Réseau Sahel Désertification |
ReSaD | 2010 | Ouagadougou | Burkina Faso | F | |
Resilience Alliance |
RA | 1999 | Wolfville NS | Canada | F | y |
Resilient40 |
2019 | Kampala | Uganda | F | ||
RESOLVE |
1977 | Washington DC | USA | G | ||
Restauradores Sin Fronteras |
A-RSF | 1999 | San Sebastian de los Reyes | Spain | F | |
Restoration Industry Association |
RIA | 1946 | Washington DC | USA | N | t |
Restored |
2010 | Teddington | UK | G | y | |
RET International |
2000 | Geneva | Switzerland | F | ||
Rettet den Regenwald |
RdR | 1986 | Hamburg | Germany | G | |
REV Ocean |
2017 | Lysaker | Norway | G | ||
Revised African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources |
2017 | T | g | |||
Rewilding Europe |
2011 | F | ||||
Ribbon International |
1982 | Huntington NY | USA | G | ||
Rice-Wheat Consortium for the Indo-Gangetic Plains |
RWC | 1994 | F | |||
Right Livelihood Foundation |
1980 | Enskede | Sweden | F | f | |
Rights and Resources Initiative |
RRI | 2005 | Washington DC | USA | F | y |
Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation |
Mexico City | Mexico | G | f | ||
Rinoceros |
2002 | Paris | France | G | ||
Ripple Effect |
1988 | Bath | UK | G | ||
River Cleanup |
2019 | Antwerp | Belgium | G | ||
RiverWatch |
2011 | Vienna | Austria | G | ||
Rodale Institute |
RI | 1985 | Kutztown PA | USA | G | j |
Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies |
1979 | New York NY | USA | G | j | |
Rotary International |
RI | 1905 | Evanston IL | USA | F | |
Round Table on Responsible Soy Association |
RTRS | 2006 | Zurich | Switzerland | C | |
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors |
RICS | 1881 | London | UK | C | j |
Rural Investment Support for Europe Foundation |
RISE Foundation | 2006 | Brussels | Belgium | F | f |
Rurality - Environment - Development |
RED | 1980 | Attert | Belgium | F | |
SAARC Forestry Centre, Bhutan |
J | gp | ||||
Sacred Earth Network |
SEN | 1985 | Petersham MA | USA | G | |
Sacred Earth Trust |
2009 | G | ||||
SADC Plant Genetic Resources Centre |
SPGRC | 1988 | Lusaka | Zambia | E | g |
Safe Food Advocacy Europe |
SAFE | 2015 | Brussels | Belgium | D | |
Safeguard for Agricultural Varieties in Europe |
SAVE Foundation | 1993 | St Gallen | Switzerland | F | f |
Safina Center |
2003 | Setauket NY | USA | G | ||
Sahara Conservation |
SC | 2004 | Saint-Maur-des-Fossés | France | F | f |
SAHARA for Life Trust |
Lahore | Pakistan | G | |||
Sahara Resource Network |
2001 | Port Elizabeth | South Africa | G | ||
Saharan Studies Association |
SSA | 1992 | Stanford CA | USA | G | |
Sail For Ethics |
S4E | 1996 | Court-Saint-Etienne | Belgium | G | |
SALEM International |
1957 | Stadtsteinach | Germany | G | ||
Saneamiento Ecológico en Latinoamérica y el Caribe |
ECOSANLAC | Quito | Ecuador | G | ||
Save Pangolins |
J | |||||
Save the Orangutan |
Copenhagen | Denmark | D | |||
Save the Rhino International |
SRI | 1992 | London | UK | F | v |
Save the Tiger Fund |
STF | 1995 | Washington DC | USA | G | f |
SaveNature.Org |
1988 | San Francisco CA | USA | G |