Nature-based climate solutions currently being widely touted include the restoration of the world’s degraded forests and other ecosystems in order to store more carbon. But while many restoration pledges have been made by many nations via many initiatives, the monitoring and tracking of their success remains murky. This is because effective and accurate ecosystem restoration tracking requires systems for long-term ground-truthing, for measuring carbon storage over decades, and for improvements in biodiversity and the boosting of local economies.

Read more to find out on how initiatives such as the Bonn Challenge’s Restoration Barometer and the Brazilian Restoration and Reforestation Observatory are striding to better establish an accurate system of global ecosystem restoration tracking.