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The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100)

2015
Policy Proposal
The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)
The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) is a country-led effort to bring 100 million hectares of deforested and degraded landscapes across Africa into restoration by 2030.

The New York Declaration on Forests

2014
Declaration
Non-binding political declaration from the United Nations Climate Summit 2014 to cut natural forest loss in half by 2020, and strive to end it by 2030.

Investigating afforestation and bioenergy CCS as climate change mitigation strategies

2014
Scholarly Work
Florian Humpenöder, Alexander Popp, Jan Philip Dietrich, David Klein, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Markus Bonsch, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Isabelle Weindl, Miodrag Stevanovic, Christoph Müller
This paper examines how different levels of a global tax on GHG emissions incentivizes afforestation and BECCS, finding that afforestation is a cost-efficient strategy at relatively low carbon prices, while BECCS becomes competitive at higher prices.

Initiative 20×20

2014
Policy Proposal
World Resources Institute (WRI) acting as Secretariat
Initiative 20x20 is a country-led effort to bring 20 million hectares of land in Latin America and the Caribbean into restoration by 2020.

Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Parkland Forest Management Framework

2013
Policy Proposal
Philadelphia Parks and Recreation
Philadelphia’s Parks and Recreation has adopted a comprehensive parkland forest management plan that expressly recognizes the value of carbon sequestered in the city's green spaces and adopts management programs to sequester additional carbon.