EurasiareView: As decade of ecosystem restoration kicks off, don’t forget the people

Without quick action to clean up the fallout of humanity’s scorched-earth economic systems, goals on hunger, biodiversity and climate will be unattainable.

With the start of the United Nations’ Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, which runs through 2030, a tremendous amount of money and effort will be put into re-growing forests, making over-exploited farmland productive, and reviving damaged marine environments. This is a good, and vital, initiative. Without quick action to clean up the fallout of humanity’s scorched-earth economic systems, goals on hunger, biodiversity and climate will be unattainable.

But in examining restoration projects already underway across the globe, a group of scientists has found that restoration action is at risk of failure if it doesn’t make social and political considerations at the center of efforts.

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