High-level interactive dialogue: Healing our land through science and Earth Intelligence

Healing our land through science and Earth Intelligence 

Land is fundamental for addressing multiple global challenges, including combating degradation and drought, halting biodiversity loss, as well as mitigating and adapting to climate change. Despite special reports by the IPCC and IPBES on the connection between land, climate and biodiversity, there is still a lack of recognition that halting land degradation is crucial to maintain a space for solutions to these interlinked challenges. This high-level interactive dialogue aims to elaborate a way forward to scale up science and data on healing our land, linking land stewardship and restoration with climate and biodiversity goals, and aspirations for improved human well-being. It does so by involving stakeholders from diverse fields, including science and academia, data providers and users of Earth Observation, governments, civil society organizations and non-governmental organizations, as well as the United Nations. It consists of a session on science gaps, a session on data gaps and a concluding session on launching an Action Agenda to scale up science and Earth Intelligence to address the global environmental crises.