Restoring Forests Articles & Analysis
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The ‘Scaling up the implementation of the Lao PDR Emission Reductions Programme (Project 2)’ aims to address decades of forest loss. Building on and coordinating with complementary initiatives including the success of FP117 (GIZ Laos Project 1), Lao PDR leverages GCF funding to further remove investment, policy, and financing barriers to create a sustainable ...
Program Ambitions The ambition of São Paulo’s Nascentes Program is to restore 20,000 hectares (77 square miles) of riparian forest on land owned by SABESP, São Paulo’s water company. Phase 1 is the restoration of 4,464 hectares of riparian forest with 6.3 million native tree seedlings. ...
In a paper published in the October 2015 issue of the journal BioScience, the researchers point out that the current emphasis on trees as tools for sequestering atmospheric carbon has led to a number of initiatives that encourage planting trees on grasslands or allowing forests to expand into grasslands. The U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Clean Development ...
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Department of Agriculture (USDA), in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, has announced the recipients of the 2015 Wood Innovations Grants. ...
In Colombia, for instance, a sugarcane grower who had clear-cut forest right to the edge of rivers, thus violating a law, defended the practice on the grounds that the scientists developing the novel-ecosystem concept advocate seeking a new ecosystem, even one with introduced species, rather than restoring the damaged system, so long as the new ecosystem provides ...
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Dismissed as a weed or marginalized in traditional forest management, bamboo could actually play an important role in forest and landscape restoration. ...
This week in Washington, D.C., members of the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) met to advance strategies to restore degraded forest landscapes around the world. ...
Tropical forests are those most valuable to the poor, store the most carbon, and are home to more biodiversity than almost any other type of forest on Earth. ...
It’s important to minimize the transactional cost for companies who play by the rules and ease the confusion brought by many legality requirements. Find Opportunities in Restoration Forest restoration offers tremendous opportunities to counteract deforestation and generate additional benefits. As much as 1 billion hectares of cleared and ...
Recent analysis by WRI’s team of experts, working with the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration, has unveiled one of the greatest potential opportunities for combined economic and environmental gains. ...
Each year the world's taxpayers provide at least $700 billion in subsidies for environmentally destructive activities, such as fossil fuel burning, overpumping aquifers, clearcutting forests, and overfishing. As the Earth Council study Subsidizing Unsustainable Development observes, 'There's something unbelievable about the world spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually ...
Protecting the earth’s nearly 4 billion hectares of remaining forests and replanting those already lost are both essential for restoring the earth’s health, an important foundation for the new economy. Reducing rainfall runoff and the associated flooding and soil erosion, recycling rainfall inland, and restoring aquifer recharge depend on ...
Forest Landscape Restoration resonates for those working in international policy arenas as well as those on the ground. This was a common message expressed by the Forestry Commission of Great Britain, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), WWF and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) at a seminar on Forest Landscape Restoration ...
Joint forest management in Andhra Pradesh was initiated to restore degraded forests and support livelihoods of forests dependents. ...