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Forests and Climate Change

AFR100: Driving commercial tree plantation expansion in Africa?

21 Sep, 2021

Pledges made towards the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) could result in nearly doubling the scale of commercial tree plantations across the continent. Download the briefing (2.1MB) AFR100 is an Africa-wide initiative aiming to restore 100 million hectares of degraded forest land by 2030, and pledges from 30 countries have now exceeded the target by more than 25 million hectares. It was launched in 2015 at the Paris Climate Summit as one of four initiatives contributing to the Bonn …

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