Positive cascading effect of restoring forests
Recent assessment of global tree restoration potential reports that under current climate conditions there would be room for additional 0.9 billion hectares of woodlands and forests Bastin et al. (2019). This could store 205 gigatonnes of carbon making forest restoration a viable strategy for climate change mitigation. Commenting on Bastin et al. (2019), Chazdon and Brancalion (2019) call for holistic approaches because forest restoration is a mechanism to achieve multiple goals that go beyond climate mitigation, also including biodiversity conservation, socioeconomic benefits, food security, and ecosystem services. A timely scientific debate considering the recent decision of the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, to declare the coming decade 2021–2030 the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
BORRELLI Pasquale;
PANAGOS Panagiotis;
WUEPPER David;
2020-03-04
International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation and China Water and Power Press
JRC119439
2095-6339 (print),
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095633919301996,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC119439,
10.1016/j.iswcr.2019.12.002 (online),
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