Collaborative Partnership on Forests Launches Process to Scale Up Forest and Landscape Restoration in the Tropics
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A report, published under the auspices of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), sets out key elements to be considered by programmes working to scale up forest landscape restoration (FLR) in tropical regions. The report summarizes the outcomes of the First Expert Group Meeting for FLR in the Tropics, which launched a process to develop comprehensive guidance for harnessing the productive, environmental and social capacities of restored degraded tropical forests, taking into consideration emerging global issues and priorities.
Economic valuations by the Center for International Forest Research (CIFOR), among others, estimate that USD 6.3 trillion is lost per year to land degradation.
The World Resources Institute (WRI) calculates that the “global restoration opportunity” for FLR could be as much as two billion hectares of land worldwide, making a substantial contribution to SDG 15 (life on land) and other targets and commitments embodied in related international processes and declarations. According to FLR researchers, meeting the Bonn Challenge alone – a global effort to bring 350 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land into restoration by 2030 – could deliver a net benefit of USD 0.7 trillion to 9 trillion and achieve “USD 7-30 in economic benefits for every dollar invested.”
An estimated USD 800 billion is required to restore 350 hectares of degraded land – an oft-cited goal of initiatives such as the Bonn Challenge – and speakers stressed that investors need the right signals, such as risk reduction and attractive track records in landscape projects, in order to up their contributions to this amount. The returns can be lucrative: for every dollar invested in landscape restoration, at least USD 7 is returned, according to a recent report. Each year 12 million hectares of land is lost to degradation, which costs the global economy more than 10 percent of annual GDP in lost ecosystem services.
The FLR Expert Group Meeting, which took place in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2018 was convened by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), the Asian Forest Cooperation Organization and Thailand’s Royal Forestry Department. In response to a request to ITTO by the CPF’s Joint Initiative on Forest and Landscape Restoration, the objective of the meeting was to review the 2002 ITTO Guidelines for the Restoration, Management and Rehabilitation of Degraded and Secondary Tropical Forests (ITTO Guidelines), as well as experiences from ongoing FLR programmes of CPF members. Read the full article , check out the above link
Economic valuations by the Center for International Forest Research (CIFOR), among others, estimate that USD 6.3 trillion is lost per year to land degradation.
The World Resources Institute (WRI) calculates that the “global restoration opportunity” for FLR could be as much as two billion hectares of land worldwide, making a substantial contribution to SDG 15 (life on land) and other targets and commitments embodied in related international processes and declarations. According to FLR researchers, meeting the Bonn Challenge alone – a global effort to bring 350 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land into restoration by 2030 – could deliver a net benefit of USD 0.7 trillion to 9 trillion and achieve “USD 7-30 in economic benefits for every dollar invested.”
An estimated USD 800 billion is required to restore 350 hectares of degraded land – an oft-cited goal of initiatives such as the Bonn Challenge – and speakers stressed that investors need the right signals, such as risk reduction and attractive track records in landscape projects, in order to up their contributions to this amount. The returns can be lucrative: for every dollar invested in landscape restoration, at least USD 7 is returned, according to a recent report. Each year 12 million hectares of land is lost to degradation, which costs the global economy more than 10 percent of annual GDP in lost ecosystem services.
The FLR Expert Group Meeting, which took place in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2018 was convened by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), the Asian Forest Cooperation Organization and Thailand’s Royal Forestry Department. In response to a request to ITTO by the CPF’s Joint Initiative on Forest and Landscape Restoration, the objective of the meeting was to review the 2002 ITTO Guidelines for the Restoration, Management and Rehabilitation of Degraded and Secondary Tropical Forests (ITTO Guidelines), as well as experiences from ongoing FLR programmes of CPF members. Read the full article , check out the above link
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land restoration
economic benefits
SDG 15.3