Nature is resurgent, but funding to restore it must quadruple

It’s not all destruction. Some 252 million hectares in 149 countries – an area the size of Kazakhstan – are under restoration, and more than a million green jobs have been created, but annual funding needs to quadruple, from $64 billion to $296 billion, to meet the 2030 targets. But we can’t fix nature with one hand while destroying it with the other, the UN warns.

From salmon spawning grounds in Canada to coral reefs in Indonesia, ecosystems around the world are being restored at an unprecedented rate. Some 252 million hectares in 149 countries, an area of land and sea roughly the size of Kazakhstan, are currently under restoration, the largest documented effort of its kind to date. More than one million green jobs have also been created in the process.

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