Land restoration, is among the cheapest solution to ClimateChange, while at the same time creating multiple opportunities such as food security, energy, green jobs & health.

“The science is clear, our planet is in danger,” said Thiaw, Executive Secretary of UNCCD.

Thiaw believes hope lies in a different approach to land use. UNCCD’s efforts to restore land made barren by human misuse and global warming is a vital component of Thunberg’s call for change, he said.

“Anytime you restore land, you actually have it as a carbon sink,” he said. “And it turns out that land is the largest carbon carbon sink that we have right now on Earth.”

Thiaw pointed to the African-led Great Green Wall project as a beacon of hope, both for the environment and the people who live on the continent. The scheme unites more than 20 African countries in creating fertile land to provide food, jobs and a sustainable future.

Gillian Tett of Financial Times joins us to discuss the main themes of the Davos Agenda on Day 2: industry transformation, growth and stakeholder capitalism.

And we hear a message from climate campaigner Greta Thunberg with responses - and potential solutions to the climate crisis - from Ibrahim Thiaw head of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Jennifer Morgan, head of Greenpeace International, and economist Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University.

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