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The brief discusses why policy coherence is a prerequisite for effective landscape and seascape restoration and, in turn, how landscape and seascape restoration can increase coherence across sectors, scales and time by aligning ecological, social and economic goals. It highlights the importance of gathering and sharing good practices to support policy integration and effective governance in landscape and seascape restoration. The brief is intended for government actors, practitioners, researchers, financiers, and civil society actors engaged in landscape and seascape restoration, and offers targeted recommendations to enable more resilient, inclusive, and transformative outcomes.

Mobilising people, inspiring communities, restoring land and forests, and developing sustainable business cases.

Commonland partners with foundations, investors and philanthropists to support local Indian organisations with holistic landscape regeneration that benefits nature and communities.

Your investment will fund projects that make an impact starting today and build sustainable systems for the future. Together we can create stronger communities, healthier landscapes and profitable businesses for Indians, now and tomorrow.

Recomendaciones Dirigidas a Actores Políticos para Lograr Inspiración y Retornos Sociales, Naturales y Financieros.

Recommendations for Latin American and Caribbean policy actors to attain inspirational, social, natural, and financial returns.

El Marco de los 4 Retornos para la restauración de paisajes descrito en este informe es una herramienta practica y probada de cambio sistémico que permite a las partes interesadas aplicar un enfoque paisajístico. El “enfoque paisajístico” aspira a equilibrar el conjunto demandas enfrentadas de las distintas partes interesadas mediante el use de un mosaico de enfoques de gestión diferentes que permita obtener toda una variedad de retornos naturales, sociales y económicos.

This new report details how EU financing of developmental projects should redirect funds to projects that focus on the inherent connection between people and nature in order to achieve necessary climate targets such as those laid out in the EU restoration law. The report, co-authored by a coalition of 19 environmental organizations including the World Resource Institute, Gold Standard, The Nature Conservancy, EIT Climate KIC, Rainforest Alliance, and Commonland, focuses on the application of an investment concept called “Landscape Finance” as a financing approach for supporting holistic landscape restoration to aid the implementation of initiatives such as the European Green Deal.

Commonland has come together with Landscape Finance Lab, as well as 19 other contributors, to issue a policy briefing offering guidance to EU institutions and Member States on why and how to leverage holistic landscape restoration to substantially, effectively, and efficiently deliver the European Green Deal (EGD).

The EGD represents a unique opportunity for Europe to become the first climate-neutral continent and put nature on track to recovery. Launched in December 2019, the EGD focuses on transitioning Europe from a linear to a circular economic model within a restored and climate-resilient environment.

Our Annual Report looks back at the impact Commonland and partners made through holistic landscape restoration in 2023.

That’s why we support partners in over 23 countries to spark and scale landscape restoration for the benefit of nature, community, and business alike. Equipped with our 4 Returns Framework, people all over the world are working to regenerate natural ecosystems, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, create sustainable livelihoods for local people, and restore hope to communities that a better future is possible.

Participatory approaches are linked to landscape restoration (LR) success, but not all participatory approaches are created equal. Engagement approaches that invest in transformative stakeholder and governance processes can create the right conditions for long-term LR commitment. A large-scale LR initiative in Spain, namely AlVelAl, illustrates how collective action can be activated through inspiration, trust and hope, which, in turn, can be cultivated through the application of social schemes designed to support inclusive stakeholder engagement processes and programmes. Collective agency and inspiration matter for activating and sustaining LR actions and outcomes. Multi-stakeholder partnerships that speak to human agency, inclusivity and trust between actors can help create a deeper shared meaning, a place-based sense of belonging that encourages cohesive landscape stewardship.

This publication introduces a comprehensive method developed by Commonland and its partners, together with KPMG, to calculate the value of financial, natural, social and inspirational returns (4 Returns) of landscape restoration and sustainable landscape management. The preliminary method was developed using seven years of field work experience on one million hectares of degraded steppe called the Altiplano Estepario in Southern Spain.

The main aim of this report is to trigger decision makers in business, government and society to form coalitions, apply such holistic approaches and drive systemic change in our food systems at scale using an ecosystem approach. The authors, and their respective organizations, are committed to contribute to coalitions and to engage with decision makers and practitioners to make the food transition a reality.

In this book, the authors and editors have provided valuable insights into a number of issues related to protecting and restoring our land resources for the benefit of current and future generations. Using case studies from around the world, they have outlined the diverse strategies and multiple benefits of a holistic land-based approach to reducing some of the underlying drivers of human insecurity.

This publication outlines a practical and systemic approach to restoring degraded landscapes. Developed by Commonland, the Framework focuses on generating four key returns—social, environmental, economic, and inspirational—over a 20-year timeline. It presents landscape restoration as a new investment class, emphasising the need for business engagement, long-term partnerships, and holistic strategies to address the global challenges of land degradation and biodiversity loss.

This paper is about hope and the potential for humans to address one of the most challenging issues of today: the degradation of natural ecosystems and the depletion of agro-systems, together called mosaic landscapes. indeed, greater awareness and understanding is growing among strategic decision makers in government, business, science, and civil society that the current global economic turmoil is rooted in unsustainable production and consumption practices combined with an increasing and more demanding population.

Este artículo trata de la esperanza y del potencial de los seres humanos para abordar uno de los temas más complicados de la actualidad: la degradación de los ecosistemas naturales y el agotamiento de los sistemas agrícolas, denominados conjuntamente paisajes en mosaico. De hecho, está aumentando la concienciación y la comprensión entre los representantes estratégicos de los gobiernos, las empresas, el mundo de la ciencia y la sociedad civil de que la actual agitación económica mundial actual tiene su origen en una producción y prácticas de consumo insostenibles, junto con una población cada vez mayor y más exigente.

This paper, presented at the Second International Forum of the Qur’anic Botanic Garden, explores the 4 Returns Framework developed by Commonland. It emphasizes the social, environmental, economic, and inspirational returns generated through holistic landscape restoration. Additionally, the paper provides examples from various regions and religious perspectives, focusing on sustainable management practices, including botanical gardens, traditional knowledge, and faith-based approaches to ecosystem conservation.