What’s it about in short: From the very first speeches on the first day of COP21, landscape-scale restora­tion was on the global agenda as never before.

When was it released: Decem­ber 24, 2015

By whom: P.J. Marshall

More info: http://www.triplepundit.com/2015/12/landscape-restoration-time/

Short extract:

The Restora­tion has begun. It’s official.

From the very first speeches on the first day of COP21, landscape-scale restora­tion was on the global agenda as never before.

Prince Charles was among the first to address the assem­bled del­e­gates, and was also the first to touch on landscape-scale restora­tion, ele­vat­ing it along­side its more com­monly dis­cussed cousin, pre­vent­ing defor­esta­tion.

“Given that we have man­aged to reduce the world’s trop­i­cal forests so sig­nif­i­cantly over recent decades (with over 500 mil­lion hectares lost since 1950), the restora­tion of for­est land­scapes should not be an after­thought – but an equal pri­or­ity to halt­ing defor­esta­tion and degra­da­tion,” he said.