The MixForChange project promotes mixed-species forest plantations as nature-based solutions to fight the causes and consequences of climate change, by providing science-based recommendations and guidelines endorsed by forest owners, managers, and policy-makers.
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In Forest of Forgotten Futures, Yara and Leo plant multiple types of oaks in the Amazon to increase the biodiversity of the trees within the forest. MixForChange has shown that a growing body of evidence suggests that mixed forest plantations, i.e., plantations where several tree species are mixed, are more efficient in sequestrating carbon, while better coping with climate change-related stress. Mixed plantations represent an opportunity for an important nature-based solution for climate change mitigation and adaptation. They are researching the best mixtures of different species with stakeholders’ expectations and constraints for productive and protective plantations.
Forest landscape restoration and afforestation have recently received much international attention as a crucial opportunity for mitigating climate change. Therefore, it features prominently in many political initiatives such as the EU Green Deal and the Bonn Challenge. Yet, the ongoing increase in biotic and abiotic stress driven by climate change puts forests under threat. In the face of climate change, adaptation and mitigation by forests are ultimately linked, because the ability of forests to sequester carbon in the long run depends on the ability of trees to cope with multiple stresses.
