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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…

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.

The ongoing shift to renewable energy systems is necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change impacts but carries its own complex environmental footprint when it comes to land use. Governments and stakeholders should deploy equitable and context-specific dual-land-use systems to ensure a surge in renewable energy generation not only avoids land degradation, but actually improves land, food…

This report presents science-based evidence concerning sustainable land use systems (SLUS) and the potential of the SLUS approach to achieve land degradation neutrality (LDN) targets, reduce inequalities, achieve social justice, improve economic viability and, consequently, help achieve multiple United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) and targets. It aims to guide countries to use…