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Carbon markets are expanding quickly, but the benefits are not reaching everyone. As many drought-affected and land-dependent communities still find the system difficult to access and hard to trust, the urgency is growing to ensure that carbon finance delivers more than emissions reductions. This white paper outlines practical ways to ensure carbon finance supports land restoration and…

The brief summarizes assessments to detail SIDS' challenges and opportunities regarding land and drought and points to urbanization, unsustainable agriculture and extractive industries as drivers of land degradation in these most climate-vulnerable territories.

Adopted at UNFCCC COP30 in Belém, Brazil on 18 November 2025, this statement by the Presidencies of UNFCCC COP30 (Brazil), CBD COP16 (Colombia), CBD COP17 (Armenia), UNCCD COP16 (Saudi Arabia) and UNCCD COP17 (Mongolia) sets out joint commitments to…

This special report on land comes at a time when the scientific evidence is unambiguous: the way we manage our land will directly determine the future of life on Earth. The planetary boundaries framework, highlighted in this report, is a critical scientific tool to understand the complex interdependencies between land, climate, biodiversity and water, among other…