Private funding is essential to leverage forest and landscape restoration at global scales

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eth library private funding is essential to leverage forest and landscape restoration at global scales other journal item author(s): löfqvist, sara; ghazoul, jaboury publication date: 2019-12 permanent link: doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000387868 rights / license: in copyright - non-commercial use permitted originally published in: nature ecology & evolution 3(12), doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1031-y this page was generated automatically upon download from the eth zurich research collection. for more information, please consult the terms of use. private funding is essential to leverage forest and landscape restoration at global scales private-sector capital is needed to scale-up forest and landscape restoration initiatives globally. to ensure the delivery of social and environmental restoration objectives, investors need to be matched appropriately to different types of restoration projects, while policies need to realign investment incentives away from degradation-driving activities. sara löfqvist and jaboury ghazoul forest and landscape restoration (flr) has caught public and policy attention as a means to rehabilitate degraded ecosystems, recover biodiversity, sequester carbon, and alleviate poverty and hunger1. fifty-seven countries, subnational governments and private enterprises have already committed over 170 million hectares for restoration as part of the bonn challenge, which aims to restore 350 million hectares within the next decade, and the united nations …

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