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Why land restoration is key to sustainable prosperity and how to set it on track

Feature / SEI’s Toby Gardner and fellow IPBES researchers outline a 10-pillar strategy for the effective protection and restoration of land.

Climate action and land use – opportunities and risk

Past event / To limit global temperatures’ increase to 1.5°C a major shift towards sustainable land use is required.

Introduction to the Special Report on Climate Change and Land

Past event / An introduction to the IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas.

Addressing the land degradation-migration nexus: the role of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

Other publication / This report looks at how UNCCD implementation can address desertification, land degradation and drought as drivers of migration.

Climate change and land

Past event / Welcome to the seminar about the results of the special IPCC report assessment on climate change and land.

Land degradation worsening climate change and undermining well-being of billions

Feature / The first comprehensive assessment of land degradation and restoration has now been launched.

Is land a renewable resource?

Perspective / In light of recent UN efforts to leverage finance for sustainable land management, Francis X. Johnson discusses its benefits and what’s needed to realise it.

Vulnerability of Ecosystem Services in the Mediterranean Region to Climate Changes in Combination with Other Pressures

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