The multiple benefits of restoration, from local to global scales, are reflected in the array of global and regional goals for restoration The year 2021 will see the kick-off of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration — a culmination of growing global attention, agreements, and ambitions for restoration and improved land management. Measures that help to restore land and improve its management can offer multiple benefits to society simultaneously — contributing to food and water security, and helping to address biodiversity loss and mitigate and adapt to climate change. This diversity of benefits has resulted in restoration commitments submitted by countries across international conventions on climate, biodiversity, and desertification and voluntary initiatives, such as the Bonn Challenge. Quantitative commitments on restoration under the Rio Conventions and the Bonn Challenge have been submitted by 115 countries. The total global ambitions on restoration can be aggregated from the array of commitments countries have made under different conventions and goals. In total, 115 countries have put forward quantitative, area-based commitments to at least one of the three Rio Conventions (the CBD, UNCCD, UNFCCC) or to the Bonn Challenge. Many countries have provided commitments to more than one of these, many of which differ in size or type of restoration measures. Hence, the need to bring them together to take stock of the total global commitments. The total of all restoration commitments by countries is close to 1 billion hectares, almost half of which are in Sub-Saharan Africa The middle estimate in this policy brief totals close to 1 billion hectares (estimate range 765–1 billion hectares under various assumptions). This is significant, compared to current land use (4.7 billion ha cropland and grazing land), projections of land-use change (0.5 billion ha are expected to be converted into agriculture between 2010 and 2050), and estimates of land degradation (0.9 to 1.1 billion ha showing declining trends in productivity). Almost half of the restoration commitments are found in Sub-Saharan Africa, followed by Central and South America, China, and South Asia. Relatively few commitments have been made by countries in North America, Europe, Russia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. The commitments appear roughly balanced between planned measures that focus on restoration and protection of natural areas, and on management and rehabilitation of agricultural and forestry areas.