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New WRI report highlights how countries can shift a portion of their existing agricultural subsidies – around $400 billion each year – to close the finance gap for farmland restoration, boost farmer incomes and food security, and protect nature. It also walks policymakers through a four-step process that they can take to do the tough work of reform, backed by concrete examples of past success in…

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (UNDER) 2021-2030 aims to massively scale up the restoration of degraded ecosystems as a proven measure to fight climate change, enhance food security, water supply and biodiversity, and manage associated risks of conflict and migration. Sustainable land management (SLM) is key to restoration of terrestrial ecosystems: it is at the core of maintaining, or re…

The 2021 Production Gap Report, by leading research institutes and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), finds that despite increased climate ambitions and net-zero commitments, governments still plan to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than what would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C. The report, first launched in 2019, measures the gap…

An overview of impacts from weather, climate and water extremes globally from 1970 to 2019 based on disaster data from the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT). Disaster statistics are conducted for the 50-year and decadal periods at the national, regional and global scales. A special section on the disproportionate impacts that tropical cyclones have on disaster statistics as well as on…

Cities are engines for development and provide opportunities for innovation and interaction. But cities can also exacerbate some of the world’s most serious environmental and socioeconomic challenges, and at the same time citizens and urban infrastructure are facing vulnerable. For cities to make peace with nature, we need to plan and design cities and urban infrastructure with nature in mind.

The GSASmap represents the spatial distribution of SAS with ECe>2 dS/m, ESP>15% and pH > 8.2 at two depth intervals (0-30 cm and 30-100 cm). With the current information from 118 countries covering 85% of global land area, it shows that more than 424 million hectares of topsoil (0-30 cm) and 833 million hectares of subsoil (30-100 cm) are salt-affected: # 85% of salt-affected…