Dr. Johannes Mössinger Contact: johannes.moessinger@unique-landuse.de https://digital.unique-landuse.de/

1. Impact monitoring
for forest landscape
restoration (FLR)
to scale nature-
based investments
Dr. Johannes Mössinger
GLF, 2023

2. Facilitating FLR impact measurement at FI level
Complexity and novelty of different FLR impact monitoring systems hinder private FLR investments
and calls for simplification
How to measure?
- No common impact framework
- Too many possible indicators, many of
which are highly specific and not SMART
for the envisaged purpose
Actual needs:
1. SMART (Specific, Measurable,
Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound)
indicators
2. Cost-effective and
3. Contribute to demonstrate financial,
environmental and social benefits
Schematic selection process for a single indicator
FLR activities/investments 2
Ecological Economic Political
Social
Soil Water Biodiversity Climate
Stability Quality Management
Chemical Biological
Physical
Earthworms Soil Enzymes
Total organic
Carbon
Many more….
Potential effect on
Final Indicator
Dimension
Impact Category
Sub-category
Sub-sub-category
Restoration target: Restore biodiversity & eco-system services
FLR activities/investments 1
e.g. introduction of
agroforestry system

3. FLR impact frameworks focus on four broad impact areas
15.1: conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland
freshwater ecosystems and their services […]
15.2: sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore
degraded forests
15.3: […] strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world
4 common FLR target/impact areas*
Conservation/Restoration Production/Economic Livelihoods/Well-being Governance
Conserve, maintain or
restore biodiversity and
eco-system services
with focus on forests
Sustainable, productive and
ecological agriculture
Sustain or improve
livelihoods or local
communities
Establish or improve
enabling institutions and
increase stakeholder
engagement
1. Stop forest loss […]
4. Support alternatives for basic
needs […]
Select restoration goals Select impact/restoration frameworks analyzed

4. FLR impact engine tool
Data at Bank level Additional data
FLR Impact Report
• Conservation/restoration
• Production/economic
• Livelihoods/well-being
FLR IMPACT ENGINE
Impact estimation
Automatically
generates impact
estimates
Automatically accesses
existing FI data
Automatically retrieves
necessary third-party
data
FLR impact engine automates FLR impact estimation process

5. Developed FLR impact monitoring solutions
OPEN ACCESS SOLUTION (BASIC) CUSTOMIZED SOLUTION (ADVANCED)
Solution
Conservation/
Restoration
- Deforestation (Landsat, Sentinel)1
- Carbon sequestration estimates
- Protection status
- Biodiversity
- Deforestation (Landsat, Sentinel and
other satellites) 1
- Carbon sequestration estimates (tier 2
and higher)
- Protection status
- Biodiversity
Production
Economic
- Sustainable management practices - Yield development
- Price development
- Sustainable management practices
Livelihoods/Well-
being
- Employment
1 https://docs.sepal.io/en/latest/modules/dwn/bfast_r.html

6. • Can be adopted by large lending institutions using
customized sets of KPIs
• Ready to be integrated or linked with banking software
• Further developed and tested for e.g. biodiversity
indicators such as ecoacoustics
Outlook – pathways for scaling

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Contact: johannes.moessinger@unique-landuse.de
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No
intersection
with
protected
areas
Protected area
Annual
carbon
reduction of
3.1 t
Carbon
Total carbon
reduction
2085.928 t
Total area of
672.88 ha
Deforestation
Low probability of
deforestation
High probability
of deforestation