We are working to make synergies around land issues a reality. Common indicators that can be used to measure land degradation neutrality at the global level are being rolled out. These are: Land use/cover change, land productivity and carbon stocks — above and below ground. A partnership is being forged so that impact and progress can be easily understood and made visible for better land-use planning and decision making and for reporting under the UNCCD, the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and other global processes. Establishing a baseline and then measuring progress will be fundamental for driving investment, combating climate change and delivering healthy terrestrial ecosystems. Achieving land degradation neutrality and improving 12 million hectares of degraded land annually up to 2030 would certainly help deliver on the new climate agreement. Already 103 Parties, who submitted Intended National Determined Contributions, included the land use sector for either mitigation or adaptation of climate change. In 2016, in time for COP22 in Marrakesh, UNCCD will work to better highlight the role of land and soil as a carbon sink and how land degradation neutrality could help communities vulnerable to climate change to adapt. We will follow the IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security and GHG fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. We will support efforts to urgently scale up the rehabilitation of degraded land and terrestrial ecosystems and will develop guidance on land as an adaptation measure.