Most recently, the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use confirmed the critical role of forests in meeting the SDGs and combatting climate change while maintaining other ecosystem services. REDD+ contributes directly to achieving SDG 13 on Climate Action and SDG 15 on Life on Land, and indirectly to several other SDGs. UN Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. In the ten years since the publication of the report, REDD+ has made considerable progress and the landscape of related international agreements has also expanded.
The publication received considerable attention from policymakers and stakeholders and was used as guidance for policy development and implementation related to REDD+. It analysed the implications of the newly evolving REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation conservation of forest carbon stocks sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks) framework of the UNFCCC and potential impacts of activities foreseen under REDD+. In 2012, IUFRO launched the GFEP report “Understanding Relationships between Biodiversity, Carbon, Forests and People: The Key to Achieving REDD+ Objectives”. We propose that digital developments for restoration should not be understood as neutral tools but rather as power-laden processes that can create, perpetuate, or counteract social and environmental inequalities. However, the distributed qualities of digital systems can also create alternative ways of undertaking restoration actions. These transformations often involve power imbalances regarding expertise, finance, and politics across the Global North and Global South. Our analysis shows how digital developments transform restoration practices by producing techniques, remaking networks, creating markets, and reorganizing participation.
#Forest landscape drivers#
By analyzing digital restoration platforms, we identify four drivers of technological developments, including: scientific expertise to optimize decisions capacity building through digital networks digital tree-planting markets to operate supply chains and community participation to foster co-creation. We investigate how digital platforms specifically reconfigure restoration practices, resources, and policy across scales. All rights reserved.ĭigital technologies are increasingly influencing forest landscape restoration practices worldwide. Our study suggests the importance of including climate niche modeling in restoration projects however, choosing to plant species that are within their native distribution range may be a good strategy in tropical regions if climate niche projections are not available. Our results also show how using continuous rather than discrete modeling can affect viability assessments. Three species showed low climatic viability two of these are native to the country but not to the region being restored.
Seven of the species showed high and medium climatic viability, all of these species were native to the region of planting. We then assessed the species suitability against three modeling thresholds simultaneously. We combined the 14 suitability models to create continuous climatic suitability models for each species. We modeled the species’ climatic suitability at the restoration sites under Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5 using 14 individual general circulation models (GCMs) for the 2030s, 2050s, and 2070s. We selected the 10 most frequently planted tree species (all native) in 1237 restoration sites in northwest Ecuador. We assessed the potential future viability of trees planted as part of Ecuador's National Reforestation Plan from 2014 – 2017, committed under the global Bonn Challenge. Paradoxically, the suitability of climatic conditions for the trees being planted at the restoration sites is changing, which may reduce the long‐term viability of these projects. Nations worldwide have committed to restoring millions of hectares of forest as a strategy to mitigate climate change with many other co‐benefits.
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