Conference Agenda
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Air Pollution 2: Policies and Outcomes Location: B005 Session Chair: Yuhang Pan, Peking University | |
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Healing Nature at Scale and Return: Lessons from China’s Ecological Restoration 1: University of Hong Kong; 2: Peking University; 3: University of Michigan Ecosystem restoration is increasingly promoted as a global strategy to combat biodiversity loss, climate change, and environmental degradation. Yet robust empirical evidence for long-term, cost-effective recovery at national scales remains limited. Critics also emphasize that restoration outcomes are often context-dependent and that trade-offs and costs are poorly quantified. Here we show that China’s ecological reforestation programs (ERPs) generated substantial ecological and public health benefits including climate extremes mitigation, air and water quality improvements, and biodiversity recovery, all without compromising agricultural productivity. Over two decades, monetized health gains from the ERPs exceeded program costs ten times over. Using China as an empirical benchmark, we construct a global return-on-investment map for forest restoration. This projection identifies regions where reforestation could yield comparably high returns. | |