Intervention · Intervention

Land restoration

Ecosystem restoration that reestablishes the ecological health and productivity of degraded land, restoring its capacity to deliver ecosystem services and support livelihoods.

Definition source: AGROVOC; UNCCD (land restoration)

Synonyms

land rehabilitation

Broader

Ecosystem restoration

Narrower

none

Relations

sequesters Carbon sink
produces Carbon sequestered

Counts as adaptation

Intervention addresses a climate hazard, OR produces a qualifying outcome (adaptation-specific or hazard-conditioned), OR produces an adaptation-specific impact; NOT adaptation when done purely for productivity, market, or development with no hazard link and no hazard-referenced result.

Mitigation

Mitigation-conditional: Intervention reduces emissions of a source or gas, OR sequesters carbon, OR produces a mitigation outcome; NOT mitigation when done for productivity, market, or development reasons only, with no emissions link and no emissions-referenced result.

Provenance

Lexicon consensus

Identifier

INT_241 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_241
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_241)