The China-WBG Global Center for Ecological Systems and Transitions (CWGC) focuses on three interconnected technical areas, together forming a comprehensive approach to ecosystem restoration.
- Ecosystem Restoration in the Broader Development Context emphasizes the importance of promoting spatial planning and zoning tools to effectively plan and zone areas for ecosystem restoration. It also involves understanding the drivers of degradation and using integrated planning approaches to address these issues. Additionally, the role of nature-based solutions in contributing to development, climate adaptation, and resilience will be explored.
- Developing and Sharing Technical Best Practices involves disseminating best practices in implementing ecosystem restoration at site level. These include soil conservation techniques in degraded landscapes, planning for large-scale forest planting, water-smart planting techniques, solutions for managing droughts and floods, as well as incentives and stakeholder engagement approaches to encourage participation in ecosystem restoration efforts. Attention will be given to leveraging artificial intelligence and remote sensing technologies to enhance restoration efforts.
- Financing and Realizing Economic Benefits focuses on the role of environmental-economic data, tools and analysis that go beyond GDP in measuring economic progress, building local and national capacity in making the economic case for restoration, and advancing policies for investing in landscape management (both private and public) to create green jobs and grow economies, ensuring the efficient use of public funds for ecosystem restoration, including identifying and utilizing private sector financing solutions to support restoration projects.
