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In light of these types of considerations, using objective metrics like economic values provides a way for different stakeholders to compare the trade-offs of alternative future options or scenarios and thus deliberate on land issues from an equally informed position. Considering land issues from the perspective of the economic values that nature provides involves measuring and valuing all of the…

Targets set up at the international level for forest and landscape restoration (FLR) are ambitious: restoring 150 million hectares of degraded lands by 2020 under the Bonn Challenge, an additional 200 million hectares by 2030 under the New York Declaration on Forests, and achieving land degradation neutrality by 2030 as Target 15.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To reach these…

An active process that brings people together to identify, negotiate and implement practices that restore an agreed optimal balance of the ecological, social and economic benefits of forests and trees within a broader pattern of land uses.

The land use sector represents almost 25% of total global emissions. These emissions can be reduced. There is also great potential for carbon sequestration through the scaling up, and scaling out, of proven and effective practices. Improved land use and management, such as low-emissions agriculture, agro-forestry and ecosystem conservation and restoration could, under certain circumstances,…

Energy is central to nearly every major challenge and opportunity the world faces today. Be it for jobs, security, climate change, food production or increasing incomes, access to energy for all is essential. Sustainable energy is an opportunity too as it fuels lives, economies and the planet. Getting sustainable energy to all who want it represents one of the biggest development…

Dans le cadre d'un concours international de dessin de presse co-organisé par le CARI et la CNULD, 80 dessins ont été réunis venant de 44 artistes représentant 20 pays. En parallèle, un concours d'écriture a été organisé par la CNULD à l'occasion de la Journée mondiale de la lutte contre la désertification le 17 juin 2015. Les dessins ont été exposés et les poèmes ont été lus à l…