Hot topics in restoration in a pandemic and post-pandemic world: Advancing rewilding, improving economies, addressing conflict and climate change, and engaging the private sector

This event will help increase understanding in five key areas where restoration can make significant contributions: (1) Pandemics and Restoration Economy (2) Restoration Triggering Local to Global Private Sector Partnerships (3) Conflict and Restoration (4) Rewilding and Restoration (5) Climate Change and Restoration The target audience for this session includes restoration practitioners, policy-makers, private sector representatives, investors and donors, communities and youth, partner organizations and researchers. The in-person audience will be drawn from the expected 5,000 on-site participants in the IUCN Congress as well as the many thousands who will join remotely. Key messages from the session will be shared with potentially millions of people through social media.