Working Session: Land Use and Oceans—Protecting and Restoring Nature: Managing Ecosystems for Drawdown (Option 2 of 3)

Date and Time
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Location
Moderators
Name
Tia Nelson
Titles and Affiliations
Managing Director, Climate, Outrider Foundation
Project Drawdown Senior Fellow
Name
Mamta Mehra
Titles and Affiliations
Senior Fellow, Project Drawdown
Discussants
Name
Senorpe Asem-Hiablie
Titles and Affiliations
Assistant Research Professor, Institutes of Energy and Environment, Penn State
Name
John Field
Titles and Affiliations
Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
Name
Gloria Flora
Titles and Affiliations
Director, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions
Name
Max Goodman
Titles and Affiliations
Drawdown Scholar, Columbia University
Name
Erica Smithwick
Titles and Affiliations
Professor of Geography, Penn State
Name
Brian Von Herzen
Titles and Affiliations
Executive Director, Climate Foundation
Innovation Talk Presenters
Name
Gloria Flora
Titles and Affiliations
Director, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions
Online Moderator
Name
Celina Scott-Buechler
Note Taker
Name
Haley Furman

Protecting intact ecosystems and restoring degraded ecosystems offer a range of “natural solutions” to help reverse climate change. Protecting diverse ecosystems, including forests, grasslands, wetlands, and oceans, not only helps achieve drawdown by reducing emissions and sequestering carbon but also provides invaluable ecosystem services. Restoring degraded ecosystems to a highly productive state will help to sequester significant amounts of carbon. In addition, some land restoration solutions, such as forest plantations, bamboo, and perennial biomass crops, can provide feedstocks for a sustainable bioeconomy with additional carbon benefits. 

Related Conference Themes
Land Use
Oceans