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A German research team have aligned IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) benchmarks on land emissions with national greenhouse gas inventories. They re-analysed emission pathways consistent with Paris Agreement temperature goals, using the LULUCF (land use, land-use change and forestry) accounting approach adopted by countries. Effective land management – for agriculture,…

To combat the negative effects of drought, global drought resilience is not a matter of choice but a necessity, this report says. Few if any hazards claim more lives, cause more economic loss and affect more sectors of societies than drought. This is the key takeaway from the report Global Drought Snapshot launched by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in collaboration with…

According to the latest progress report for the Sustainable Development Goals, about 8 per cent of all food produced in the world is lost on the farm, 14 per cent is lost between the farm gate and the retail sec­tor, and 17 per cent is wasted at the retail, food service provider and household levels. What is disturbing here is that these figures haven’t changed significantly in the…

The COP28 climate talks began with a new fund to address the increasingly severe losses and damage vulnerable countries face from climate impacts and concluded with the first international agreement to tackle climate change’s main driver: fossil fuels. Those bookends to the Dubai summit start to tackle the world’s core climate challenges: quickly transforming key systems to…

GLTN PHASE 3 PROGRAMME (2019-2023) The world faces housing, land and property rights challenges of critical proportions. Tenure insecurity affects the majority of the world’s people in rural, peri-urban and urban areas. The situation is particularly dire in developing countries, where in many cases over 90% of land holding is neither documented, administered or protected. Meeting…

With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act last year, a decades-long effort to get a major climate package through Congress is over. But the work of ensuring this unprecedented bundle of funding for clean energy actually leads to reduced emissions is just beginning. A decision with profound implications for that goal now lies with the Treasury Department, which must settle a…