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Private funding is essential to leverage forest and landscape restoration at global scales

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Private-sector capital is needed to scale-up forest and landscape restoration initiatives globally. To ensure the delivery of social and environmental restoration objectives, investors need to be matched appropriately to different types of restoration projects, while policies need to realign investment incentives away from degradation-driving activities.

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Fig. 1: A typology of investment approaches and options for FLR.

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S.L. is funded by an ETH Zurich doctoral research grant. J.G. holds the Prince Bernhard Chair of International Nature Conservation, through which some of the ideas emerged.

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  1. Ecosystem Management, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Sara Löfqvist & Jaboury Ghazoul

  2. Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Jaboury Ghazoul

  3. Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

    Jaboury Ghazoul

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Löfqvist, S., Ghazoul, J. Private funding is essential to leverage forest and landscape restoration at global scales. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 1612–1615 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1031-y

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