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"The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals emphasise that ecosystem
services and biodiversity conservation are essential to human well-being and
have thus defined a dual agenda where development targets for people and planet
sit alongside each other in a unifying framework (United Nations 2015). As
countries around the world seek solutions to both climate change and poverty,
nature-based solutions, such as tree planting programmes, are gaining
attention. These programmes offer the potential to not only sequester carbon,
but also create jobs and transfer productive forestry assets to receiving
individuals or communities, aligning environmental and development targets.
In our research (Pagel and Sileci 2024), we explore whether tree planting can
be used as a poverty alleviation instrument by studying the Philippines’
National Greening Program (NGP), a large-scale tree planting initiative. We
conduct a nationwide evaluation linking NGP tree planting projects with two
granular development indicators: official small area poverty estimates and a
novel measure of extreme poverty based on the proportion of built settlements
associated with no nighttime luminosity, extending work by McCallum et al.
(2022) to a panel setting. We find that treated municipalities experience a
decrease in poverty of 6 percentage points and a decrease in the share of unlit
settlements of 8 percentage points."
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