SUPERB pursues the overall goal to create a lasting enabling environment for transformative change towards large-scale forest and forest landscape restoration. This empowers decision-makers to take just and informed decisions for restoration of biodiversity, ecosystem services and carbon sequestration in a manner that minimises region specific trade-offs and maximises synergies between ecosystem services. SUPERB develops and synthesises a multidisciplinary, practical, and scientific restoration knowledge basis and makes it publicly available.
In 12 large-scale demonstrators across Europe, they will showcase best practices responding to key forest restoration and adaptation challenges on some hundreds of hectares per demo. This will allow for the potential for immediate upscaling to over one million hectares in 10 - 15 years. For large scale restoration to be successful, many actors from different sectors and disciplines must behave synergistically and in a mutually reinforcing way. They will speed up transformative change and further upscaling through innovative stakeholder involvement across scales to ensure the favourability and uptake of the proposed approaches.
A comprehensive multi-language online Forest Ecosystem Restoration Gateway will guide stakeholders to find answers to their restoration questions, advise them on how to deal with barriers, and provide access to easily applicable and comprehensible tools and materials that support restoration. Some of the tools and materials may include, but are not limited to, the best practices for forest restoration, the development of scalability plans, a tree species selection application, and an innovative funding guide.
The Gateway will also host a restoration Marketplace, where market agents (potential funders and landowners) can agree on bids for restoration projects. SUPERB will boost and measure its impact through its extensive and systematically enlarged stakeholder communities and networks to ensure the relevance of the project outputs and their positive uptake.
Read their collaborative policy brief titled "Comments on the draft Nature Restoration Law".
Read their policy brief titled "The cost of putting the environment on the backburner".
Read their policy brief titled "Policy recommendations for the EU Nature Restoration Law -towards biodiverse and adaptive forest landscapes for Europe’s people".
Read their policy brief titled "How to strengthen the European forest carbon sink, integrating active restoration and adaptation to climate change"
