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Land restoration is an essential component of any building forward strategy. Without land restoration, we will continue to face global crises. Ensuring food and water security, reducing emissions, and conserving biodiversity will not be possible without concerted efforts to regenerate our natural capital and transform our food systems. Land is the foundation of our…

This is a crucial moment for the world’s food systems. Hunger has been on the rise since 2015, and 3 billion people cannot afford healthy diets. At the same time, food systems are placing unsustainable demands on the world’s water and energy resources and contributing a hefty share of greenhouse gas emissions. All these trends were well under-way long before COVID-19.2020, which brought the…

The policy debate on climate security in the past 20 years has evolved from recognising climate change as threat multiplier or security risk and understanding the pathways through which this relationship occurs to assessing such security risks in specific regions and countries, also in terms of early warning. However, markedly less attention has been paid to considering how we can reduce adverse…

World’s first comprehensive energy roadmap shows government actions to rapidly boost clean energy and reduce fossil fuel use can create millions of jobs, lift economic growth and keep net zero in reach The number of countries announcing pledges to achieve net-zero emissions over the coming decades continues to grow. But the pledges by governments to date – even if fully achieved –…

Never has there been a more critical time for governments to scrutinise and scale-up their expenditure on food and agriculture. Over the last year, efforts to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 were derailed further owing to COVID-19, with many more millions of people likely to have gone hungry, on top of the 690 million that already suffered from undernourishment before the pandemic hit societies…

This report shows how 2020 marked ten years of cities reporting the climate and environmental data through the CDP-ICLEI Unified Reporting System. It presents how in 2020, there has been a 17x increase in city disclosure since 2011 — 812 cities have disclosed, compared to just 48 in 2011. It discusses how cities are aiming to build resilience to protect every person as well as Climate planning…