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DocumentFrom projects to landscapes: FAO/WRI tools for monitoring progress and impacts of Forest and Landscape Restoration
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Restoring degraded lands is a key strategy for mitigating climate change, improving ecosystem health, and sustaining goods and services for people and planet. As part of the Bonn Challenge, New York Declaration on Forests, and other international initiatives, countries are encouraged to collectively restore at least 350 million hectares of degraded lands. Also, 2021-2030 has just been declared the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Monitoring restoration progress is important for ensuring that restoration activities stay on track to meet local and global goals. Monitoring also provides evidence for communicating successes, which will attract further investments for restoration projects, thereby scaling up efforts. In this context, WRI and FAO have jointly developed a series of tools to help with monitoring restoration. First is a guidebook for practitioners on discussing objectives and impacts and deciding which indicators to consider for monitoring their restoration projects, entitled The Road to Restoration: A Guide to Identifying Priorities and Indicators for Monitoring Forest and Landscape Restoration. Alongside this publication, the organizations prepared an e-learning course within the FAO e-learning academy and a web application called AURORA (Assessment, Understanding and Reporting of Restoration Actions), which facilitate the decision-making process and support users is selecting desired impacts and their indicators, setting up their goals, and monitoring progress. To complement this process, the publication Mapping Together: A Guide to Monitoring Forest and Landscape Restoration using Collect Earth Mapathons was produced to help project managers organize data collection events that establish baselines and monitor progress focusing on biophysical indicators. Here, we briefly present the FAO/WRI set of tools that will facilitate monitoring at different stages and will contribute to more robust monitoring and reporting processes. Keywords: Monitoring and data collection|Landscape management ID: 3623051 -
ArticleThe economics of ecosystem restoration (TEER) initiative
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.The lack of consistent information on costs and benefits of ecosystem restoration hinders further investments, weakening our collective capacity to achieve the global restoration goals. To fill this gap the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) initiated The Economics of Ecosystem Restoration (TEER) initiative, together with the CGIAR Research program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) led by CIFOR, the World Resource Institute (WRI), and other member organizations of the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR). The initiative has developed a common protocol to collect standardized data on costs and benefits of land-based restoration projects across countries and biomes. The ultimate objective of the TEER initiative is to constitute a global database that could serve as a reference point for governments, international donors, private investors, project managers, scientists and other stakeholders, for the ex-ante estimation of costs and benefits of future restoration projects in all major biomes and across a wide range of contexts worldwide, based on information from comparable projects on which data has been collected through a standardized framework. Such a reference database could offer decision-makers and restoration practitioners a wide range of restoration options and help them better understand their costs and expected benefits in different contexts, thus helping them prioritize their restoration investments in a world of constrained resources. Keywords: knowledge management; landscape management; monitoring and data collection. ID: 3484608 -
ArticleSizing the restoration and the reclamation economy in Alberta
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.The recovery from the COVID‐19 crisis coincides with a critical opportunity to fight against ecosystem degradation and climate change by investing in the reclamation and restoration (R&R) economy. In this study, we quantify the scope of the R&R economy in the province of Alberta. A survey was distributed among R&R practitioners to quantify jobs, expenditures, and revenues of the R&R economy based on fiscal year 2018-2019. Based on 112 respondents, the survey highlights that the R&R economy in Alberta is robust and supported by a network of multidisciplinary stakeholders and businesses, composed of consultants (42.9%), industry (29.5%), government (8.9%), product and equipment suppliers (5.2%), academia (4.5%), service providers (4.5%), and NGOs (4.5%). Our results totaled 2 056 employees working at least part-time representing 1 488 full time equivalent positions. Business units range in size from one person to 400 employees and have a correspondingly wide range of revenues and expenditures, from less than CAD$50 000 to more than CAD$100 million per year. A high proportion of survey respondents (79.8%) reported an expectation of similar or increasing workload in the near future. While results highlighted reclamation had a higher profile than restoration activities, they do show that the strength of the R&R economy largely reflects, and is a result of, the regulatory framework that exists in resource-rich provinces. The socio-economic benefits of the R&R sector demonstrated in this study put in perspective the need to link regional R&R practitioner’s expertise with national and international environmental commitments on forest landscape restoration. Such linkages will increase the contribution from R&R businesses and practitioners to these commitments and will give decision-makers real life data to invest in this emerging sector as a piece of the broader green economy. Keywords: Employment, forest, landscape degradation, oil and gas, policy, revenues ID: 3480925
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