The document discusses investment opportunities in landscape restoration in Misiones, Argentina, focusing on its biodiversity and forest protection traditions. Key initiatives include pledging one million hectares for restoration, aiming for a 50% reduction in deforestation by 2023, and the introduction of financial instruments like green bonds. It highlights various sustainable practices such as intercropping, agroforestry, and nature tourism as part of Misiones' low carbon development strategy.

1. Emerging opportunities for
investments in landscape
restoration: Argentina
Global Landscape Forum
London, June 2016
Gabriel Labbate
Senior Programme Officer
Gabriel.Labbate@unep.org

2. Background context
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Province of Misiones
• A REDD+ jurisdiction
• Last contiguos patch of Atlantic
Forest;
• Significant biodiversity value;
• A tradition in forest
protection;
• Solid legal foundation in land
use planning;
Argentina
• Return to capital markets;
• Emphasis on CC policies;
• Support to private sector
development;
• 1 miilion hectares pledged for
landscape restoration

3. Opportunities in Misiones´s
low carbon development strategy
• 50% decrease in deforestation
rate by 2023
• Zero net deforestation by 2023
• Credit lines for agroforesty,
plantations and land restoration;
• First Green Land Use Change
Bond;
• Support to tourism sector;
• Enforcement of land use change
regulations;
• Misiones´s Trademark

4. Investment Opportunities in
a Landscape Approach
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Intercropping (yerba mate
and araucaria) Bamboo plantations
Agroforestry with native trees
Nature Tourism
Carbon capture

5. Thank you
Global Landscape Forum
London, June 2016
Gabriel Labbate
Senior Programme Officer
Gabriel.Labbate@unep.org