Towards understanding the True Cost of Landscape Governance: Highlighting the need for long-term operational funding for landscape-scale and territorial approaches

Integrated landscape approaches are central to achieving global climate, biodiversity, and land degradation
neutrality goals. Yet, the essential governance and coordination work that makes them possible – facilitation, adaptive management, and multi-stakeholder collaboration – remains critically overlooked and consequently underfunded and largely invisible in current financial systems.

This webinar introduces a collaborative effort to document and analyze the real operational costs of sustaining these initiatives. The goal is to create a clearer picture for governments and donors to design funding mechanisms that reflect the true requirements for long-term success.

This initiative is developed with partners including the 1000 Landscapes for One Billion People initiative and the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI), United Nations University (UNU), and builds on guidance from the UNCBD and UNCCD.