Mangrove Breakthrough

Syllabus: General Studies Paper 3

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

• The Breakthrough Agenda launched at COP26, and the work of the Global Mangrove Alliance.
• The Mangrove Breakthrough provides a framework for countries, the private sector, and others to join forces and strengthen their actions every year, in every sector, through a coalition of leading public, private and public-private global initiatives scaling up investment in mangrove protection and restoration.
• The Mangrove Breakthrough is part of a set of 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. 
• It aims to aims to catalyze the financial support needed to scale proven solutions by working to channel finance to the ground through the Global Mangrove Alliance: 

• 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.

About The Global Mangrove Alliance:

• In 2018  they formed by

• Conservation International (CI), 
• The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 
• The Nature Conservancy (TNC), 
• Wetlands International, 
• World Wildlife Fund (WWF) formed the Global Mangrove Alliance (GMA). 

• This partnership now includes over 30 member organizations that share the aim of scaling up the recovery of mangroves through equitable and effective expansion of both mangrove protection and the restoration of former mangrove areas. 

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).
• From a practical perspective, the GMA works worldwide in supporting research, advocacy, education and practical projects on the ground with local and community partners.