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Corporate sustainability disclosure and land degradation neutrality

Land degradation, drought, and biodiversity loss are growing risks for societies, economies, and ecosystems. But better action starts with better information.This report from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), developed with the UNCCD Business4Land Initiative, explores how corporate sustainability reporting can help strengthen sustainable land management, drought resilience and Land…

Corporate sustainability disclosure and land degradation neutrality
Living soils, productive lands, resilient landscapes: Guidance on avoiding, reducing and reversing the degradation of agricultural lands and soils

Agricultural land underpins food security, nutrition, rural livelihoods and essential ecosystem services, yet faces growing pressures from unsustainable land use and management, climate change, and rising demand for food and natural resources. In response, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the UNCCD jointly developed Living soils, productive lands, resilient…

Living soils, productive lands, resilient landscapes: Guidance on avoiding, reducing and reversing the degradation of agricultural lands and soils
Business4Land: Powering a land-positive economy

Focusing on the operational frameworks, the brief details how the initiative structures its corporate impact across three strategic pillars: aligning business value chains with land-positive practices, piloting innovative financial instruments like the Drought Resilience Investment Facility, and fostering policy advocacy through a Champions Council. Geared toward high-impact industries like…

Business4Land: Powering a land-positive economy
Promoting synergies between Land Degradation Neutrality and climate change adaptation

The report is envisioned as a supplement to the guidelines of the NAP process. It offers a step-by-step approach to integrating the principles and objectives of the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) framework within climate change adaptation planning. It identifies where and how these broad goals intersect, and it reveals how activities, knowledge, training, monitoring and funding sources can…

Promoting synergies between Land Degradation Neutrality and climate change adaptation