Canada
Securing finance for large-scale ecosystem restoration has long been one of the field's most persistent bottlenecks. While restoration driven by legal compliance and biodiversity commitments has advanced in recent years, it still falls dramatically short of the scale required to reverse global degradation. Restoration as a profitable, competitive land use has remained largely out of reach.
Carbon finance is beginning to change that reality. By creating tangible economic value for standing and growing forests, carbon markets are opening unprecedented opportunities to scale up restoration—potentially transforming it into a land use capable of displacing degrading activities while expanding native forest cover and delivering climate and biodiversity benefits at scale.
Speaker: Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Professor of Forest Restoration, University of São Paulo