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Can We Restore 350 Million Hectares by 2030?
Originally published on the World Resources Institute website. With growing awareness of the economic costs of land degradation, political leaders are adopting ambitious targets to restore degraded forests and agricultural land. Building on the interest in forest landscape restoration generated by the Bonn Challenge, in 2014, countries adopted the New York Declaration on […] Continue Reading
New Deforestation Hot Spots in the World’s Largest Tropical Forests
Originally published on the World Resources Institute website. Where is deforestation worsening around the world? It’s a difficult question to answer, as many forest assessments are often years or even a decade out of date by the time they’re published. But we’re getting there, thanks to better data and advanced computing power. A new […] Continue Reading
Save the forests? There’s now an app for that
The world has never seen such political momentum to protect our planet’s forests. Around the world, 366 companies, worth $2.9 trillion, have committed to eliminating deforestation from their supply chains, according to the organization Supply Change. Groups such as the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, the Consumer Goods Forum and Banking Environment Initiative aim to help […] Continue Reading
Stretching the carbon goals: Agroforestry experts want new partnerships and a boost for research
“The contribution of trees in agriculture into the global carbon balance is still widely ignored. And if we don’t … start really blasting this message around the world, we are missing one of the biggest opportunities that this institution has had for many, many years.” This is how Dennis Garrity, UN’s Drylands Ambassador and former Director […] Continue Reading
African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) to be launched in Paris
AFR100 is a pan-African, country-led effort to bring 100 million hectares of deforested and degraded landscapes in Africa under restoration by 2030. It is a platform for implementation that brings together political commitment with the necessary financial and technical support. Experience in multiple countries has demonstrated that forest landscape restoration (FLR) can deliver significant benefits. […] Continue Reading
New land degradation neutrality goal to accelerate global restoration efforts
The global community has set forth a new goal to tackle the scourge of land degradation and desertification. It could be real breakthrough. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) had a ‘breakthrough moment’ after two weeks of discussions and negotiations in Ankara, Turkey in October. The 195 parties to the Convention agreed to […] Continue Reading