Committing to ecological restoration
Efforts around the globe need legal and policy clarification
Abstract
At the September 2014 United Nations Climate Summit, governments rallied around an international agreement—the New York Declaration on Forests—that underscored restoration of degraded ecosystems as an auspicious solution to climate change. Ethiopia committed to restore more than one-sixth of its land. Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, and Colombia pledged to restore huge areas within their borders. In total, parties committed to restore a staggering 350 million hectares by 2030.
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Volume 348 | Issue 6235
8 May 2015
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We thank anonymous reviewers, N. Barger, R. Hobbs, and S. Murphy for comments. This work was supported by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) under funding received from the U.S. National Science Foundation DBI-1052875.
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