Understanding the use of carbon credits by companies: a review of the defining elements of corporate climate claims

D Trouwloon, C Streck, T Chagas… - Global challenges, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Worldwide, companies are increasingly making claims about their current climate efforts and
their future mitigation commitments. These claims tend to be underpinned by carbon credits …

The role of incentive mechanisms in promoting forest restoration

AM Tedesco, PHS Brancalion… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Forest restoration has been proposed as a scalable nature-based solution to achieve global
environmental and socio-economic outcomes and is central to many policy initiatives, such …

Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits

A Di Sacco, KA Hardwick, D Blakesley… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives,
many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly …

Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes

PHS Brancalion, A Niamir, E Broadbent… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Over 140 Mha of restoration commitments have been pledged across the global tropics, yet
guidance is needed to identify those landscapes where implementation is likely to provide …

[HTML][HTML] People plant trees for utility more often than for biodiversity or carbon

MP Martin, DJ Woodbury, DA Doroski, E Nagele… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tree planting is both a promising and controversial solution to climate change and
biodiversity loss. However, this controversy is largely theoretical because we lack detailed …

What makes ecosystem restoration expensive? A systematic cost assessment of projects in Brazil

PHS Brancalion, P Meli, JRC Tymus, FEB Lenti… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Limited funding is a major barrier to implementing ambitious global restoration
commitments, so reducing restoration costs is essential to upscale restoration. The lack of …

Fifteen essential science advances needed for effective restoration of the world's forest landscapes

AR Marshall, CE Waite, M Pfeifer… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
There has never been a more pressing and opportune time for science and practice to
collaborate towards restoration of the world's forests. Multiple uncertainties remain for …

Incentives and barriers to private finance for forest and landscape restoration

S Löfqvist, RD Garrett, J Ghazoul - Nature ecology & evolution, 2023 - nature.com
Increased private finance can accelerate forest and landscape restoration globally. Here we
conduct semi-structured interviews with asset managers, corporations and restoration …

Forest landscape restoration: state of play

JA Stanturf, S Mansourian - Royal Society open science, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Tree planting has been widely touted as an inexpensive way to meet multiple international
environmental goals for mitigating climate change, reversing landscape degradation and …

Conservation of tropical forests in the anthropocene

DP Edwards, JB Socolar, SC Mills, Z Burivalova… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
If current trends continue, the tropical forests of the Anthropocene will be much smaller,
simpler, steeper and emptier than they are today. They will be more diminished in size and …