Innovations to scale up forest restoration

报告人：Associate Professor Pedro Brancalion

日期：2025年5月14日

时间：上午9:00-10:30

腾讯会议号：218495039

会议室：城环学院109

报告内容简介

Both Brazil and China have mastered the technology to establish monoculture tree plantations across millions of hectares and have obtained important utilitarian benefits from doing this. However, more diverse forests are needed to maximize multiple benefits. Despite the growing society demands for diverse forests, there remain critical knowledge and technological barriers for their large-scale restoration, calling for transformative innovations. In this talk, I’ll present an overview of some of these innovations, including restoring abandoned monocultures, financing native forest restoration with revenues from timber harvest, adapting forestry technologies for industrial monocultures for scalable, affordable, and effective forest restoration methods, cutting-edge use of drone and artificial intelligence. Finally, to illustrate the potential of these innovations for promoting new businesses, I’ll present the efforts of a Brazilian forest restoration company, re.green. Established in 2021, re.green now has over 35,000 hectares under restoration both in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and Amazon, including the largest private restoration project in Brazil (18,500 ha in the Amazon), 16,000 ha of contract already traded, and >6 million seedlings planted. Integrating science into innovative business is a powerful approach to enable restoration at scale.

报告人简介

Pedro Brancalion is Associate Professor at the Department of Forest Science, University of São Paulo, partner at Re.green company, director of innovation of the Center for Carbon Research in Tropical Agriculture (CCARBON) and affiliated member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Pedro coordinates large research and technology projects to develop cost-effective solutions to conserve and restore tropical forests, based on interdisciplinary research and co-production of knowledge with multiple stakeholders. He published over 250 peer-reviewed papers and has been a highly cited researcher by Clarivate since 2021. 

Google Scholar: 

https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=Of YV1WAAAAJ&hl=pt-BR