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If you track science in the news regularly, you may have noticed the release of the IPBES Assessment Report on Land Degradation and Restoration, a landmark global scientific assessment of land degradation and restoration and its summary for policy makers. Most of the press reported the almost unfathomable extent of the problem. About 75% of all land is impacted by degradation. This is compromising the well-being of nearly half of the people on Earth and costing 10% of the annual global gross product in lost ecosystem services. The impending doom is not to be taken lightly. But the press reports obscure a wealth of information in the Assessment, which can lead to solutions

The UNCCD Science-Policy Interface (SPI) released the Scientific Conceptual Framework for Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) in English, Spanish and French. The conceptual framework provides a scientific basis for understanding, implementing and monitoring LDN. It has been designed to create a bridge between the vision and the practical implementation of LDN and has found immediate application in the LDN Target Setting Programme.  Read more: The UNCCD Science-Policy Interface Land degradation neutrality The LDN target setting programme