Regenerating a Liveable Planet Facilitator: Lindsay Stringer (supported by Graham von Maltitz) Invited panelists: Abeer Alabri (Kuwait NFP) Patrice Burger (CARI) Martin Dallimer (University of Leeds, UK) Jonathan Davies (IUCN) Hannes Etter (GIZ) Anne Juepner (UNDP) Leigh Winowiecki (ICRAF) Summary…

Achieving land degradation neutrality (LDN) involves identifying and implementing a combination of appropriate interventions to avoid, reduce, or reverse land degradation in each land type, thereby maintaining (or enhancing) land-based natural capital. To achieve LDN, land use decision-makers need…

The UNCCD Knowledge Hub supports the effective use of existing knowledge resources on desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD), by providing access to diverse repositories, publications, portals and other knowledge sources. Through the UNCCD Knowledge Hub, you can find all the background…

The current pressures on land are huge and expected to continue growing: there is rapidly escalating competition between the demand for land functions that provide food, water, and energy, and those services that support and regulate all life cycles on Earth. A significant proportion of managed and…

Shaping an enabling environment for Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) calls for integrated land use planning, inclusive and environmentally sound land access, and governance, major reconfigurations of current institutional settings, financial backing, and ongoing dialogue between policy-makers…

The land degradation neutrality (LDN) conceptual framework applies a neutrality mechanism that is focused pro-actively on planning to achieve no net loss of land-based natural capital, rather than on regulating land degradation. The neutrality mechanism comprises the counterbalancing of anticipated…

The Conceptual Framework for LDN is intended to provide a scientifically-sound basis for understanding and implementing Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), and to inform the development of practical guidance for pursuing LDN and monitoring achievement of LDN for those UNCCD Parties that choose to…

The growing demand for food, fodder, fuel, and raw materials is increasing pressures on land and the competition for natural resources. At the same time, degradation is reducing the amount of productive land available. The drivers of land degradation can be categorized into two types: (i) direct or…

The Committee on Science and Technology (CST) has been established as a subsidiary body of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to provide information and advice on scientific and technological matters related to combating desertification and mitigating the effects of drought.

Introducing the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land Facilitator: Mariam Akhtar-Schuster Opening remarks: Mariam Akhtar-Schuster and Annette Cowie Introduction to the report: Jim Skea (Co-Chair, Working Group III), Minal Pathak (Technical Support Unit Working Group III, Drafting Author…

Through the LDN Target-Setting Programme, interested countries receive technical guidance and specialized expertise to help define national Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) goals. Four building blocks form the basis of the LDN target-setting process, developed on the scientific guidance provided by…

Tools and practices to achieve multiple benefits through LDN Facilitator: Jim Skea, Co-Chair, IPCC Working Group III Brief statements on: Soil carbon – a key indicator for LDN: Ermias Betemariam Tools for soil carbon estimation: Eleanor Campbell (University of New Hampshire) [figures] Integrated…

20 percent of the Earth’s total land area (more than 2 billion hectares), an area nearly the size of India and the Russian Federation combined, was degraded between 2000 and 2015, resulting in a significant loss of services essential to human well-being. That estimate is based on data reported by…

The UNCCD 1st scientific conference was held during the ninth session of the Committee on Science and Technology (CST) from 22 to 24 September 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the theme “Bio-physical and Socio-economic Monitoring and Assessment of Desertification and Land Degradation to Support…

Steps to derive SDG indicator 15.3.1 from the sub-indicators where ND is not degraded and D is degraded The indicator is derived from a binary classification of land condition (i.e., degraded or not degraded) based on the baseline assessment and evaluation of change in three sub-indicators: Trends…

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Given growing demands on land and emerging challenges from land degradation and climate change, policymakers require information on the possible consequences. This chapter explores trends up to 2050, through the Shared Socio-economic Pathways scenarios, based on the report ‘Exploring the impact of…

Agriculture is the single biggest land use covering more than one-third of the world’s land surface, not including Greenland and Antarctica. The amount and quality of land available for food production is under pressure from the decisions and demands made by consumers, producers, and governments…

Neutrality is the aspirational goal of land degradation neutrality (LDN), meaning that there is no net loss of what LDN is intended to maintain, which is the land-based natural capital. No net loss in this context means that land-based natural capital is maintained or enhanced between the start and…

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Land degradation neutrality (LDN) aims to achieve no net loss of land-based natural capital, compared with the baseline. Monitoring achievement of neutrality is based on quantifying the baseline and then assessing the balance between the area of “gains” (significant positive changes/improvements)…

There has been a massive and unprecedented explosion in energy use since the 19th century; global energy use has grown by more than 20 times in the last 200 years, far outstripping the rate of population growth (Grübler, 2004). In particular, the use of fossil fuels has increased dramatically…

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015 include SDG 15.3 as a target on Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN). In October 2015, LDN was officially recognised by the UNCCD by a decision of the twelfth session of the Conference of the…

Data on SDG Indicator 15.3.1 are regularly collected by the UNCCD through its national reporting and review process since 2018, and every four years thereafter. Data underpinning the indicator and its sub-indicators are mainly derived from Earth Observation data sources which have global coverage…

An outlook is a vantage point, a platform, a perspective; it broadens our vistas and allows us to examine our prospects, both present and future. It is within this broader frame of thinking that the Global Land Outlook aims to present a unique perspective on one of the Earth’s most precious assets…