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The EU recently announced ambitious goals to better protect soil and its ecosystems •However, soil biodiversity is not adequately protected through policy instruments •We found soil biodiversity protection best achieved as joint action at the EU level •The Soil Health Law foreseen for 2023 should prioritised gaps in national conservation •Beneficial land management…

Restoring the health of degraded land is critical for overall human development as land is a vital life-supporting system, directly or indirectly influencing the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs). However, more than 33% of the global land is degraded and thereby affecting the livelihood of billions of people worldwide. Realizing this fact, the 73rd session…

The guide provides practical methods to integrate the VGGT into UNCCD and Land Degradation Neutrality efforts, supporting policymakers in addressing land tenure issues through adaptable approaches, legal frameworks, and national strategies to combat desertification and land degradation.

The report provides an analytical overview of common tools and approaches that are used, or can be used, to support integrated land use planning (ILUP) and integrated landscape management (ILM) and identifies ways in which these tools and approaches can aid in achieving LDN targets.

Great Green Wall promises both vulnerability reduction and ecological recovery. • Study traces assumptions of win-win vision in project documents to material outcomes. •Program targets areas of higher resource potential and is inattentive to truly vulnerable. •Physical protection starts process of social enclosure/privatization benefiting elites. •Sociotechnical imaginary…

While the first picture of Earth from deep space invoked awe and wonder, they also graphically revealed the startling reality of the finite and stark boundaries in which humanity exists. Whitin these boundaries, the Earth has entered the age of Anthropocene, where humans are dominant force altering the Earth System.