“We cannot turn back time, but we can grow forests, revive water sources, and bring back soils. We are the generation that can make peace with land,” World Environment Day 2024.
To mark World Environment Day 2024, the UN Environment Programme has made an urgent call to action to Generation Restoration to find common ground worldwide around three priorities:
- Revive lands
- End desertification
- Secure water
We are committed to tackling climate change and biodiversity loss – two of the biggest challenges of our time – because we know that supporting a healthy environment is critical to the health of people, society, and the planet. Natural resources, and the benefits that humans receive from nature, are also essential to produce our medicines and operate our sites.
Through water stewardship and reforestation we’re taking action to help restore landscapes and enhance ecological resilience. We are also collaborating with our peers in the pharmaceutical sector to develop a new Roadmap to Nature Positive for the pharmaceutical sector, to accelerate the business contribution towards the societal goal of nature positive.
AZ Forest – our global reforestation programme
Through AZ Forest, we are working in partnership with experts focused on landscape restoration and local communities, to plant and maintain 200 million trees across six continents by 2030. AZ Forest focuses on natural forest restoration, restoration of regraded agricultural land, and agroforestry. Projects are designed to maximise the co-benefits of reforestation, including: supporting sustainable livelihoods, building local climate resilience, protecting and restoring biodiversity and reducing the risk of natural disasters, such as floods and landslides.
