
How can science help us work together to restore landscapes?
Partnerships convened for landscape restoration can involve diverse stakeholders with different interests and perspectives. Through the development of a unique…
January 6, 2023
Ben Porter
The large-scale restoration of habitats including forests, peatlands and wetlands offers opportunities to tackle the twin crises of anthropogenic climate change and global biodiversity loss. It is therefore critical that restoration projects can maximise their climate change mitigation potential while still delivering biodiversity benefits. This project aims to understand how projects can achieve this, by quantifying the potential contribution of ELP projects to such ‘natural climate solutions’ – – and explore how this can be maximised, without compromising other project goals.
Demonstrating the contribution that ecosystem restoration can make towards climate change mitigation, in addition to the biodiversity benefits that are generated, can be used in policy advocacy for landscape restoration. The results of the project will be used to promote conservation-focused natural climate solutions at key upcoming UN conferences on climate change and biodiversityBy improving understanding of the links between climate change mitigation and ecosystem integrity, this project will provide a vital hook for advocating the use of large-scale restoration as a natural climate solution with policy makers.
This project will develop a tool to enable landscape restoration projects to assess their potential climate change mitigation benefits. This tool will quantify the carbon sequestration potential for each ELP project and identify how this can be optimised in line with biodiversity benefits. This will be achieved by quantifying the carbon sequestration and storage flowing from ELP restoration activities, set against a comparison of ‘business as usual’ for these landscapes. This project will provide important real-world examples of the climate change mitigation benefits that can come from the large-scale restoration of natural habitats, strengthening the case for increasing the capacity and funding available.
This project has the following three aims:
This project hopes to achieve the following impacts:
You can read a summary of the work done in this project here.
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