Land degradation and restoration – global state and plausible futures
Based on the assessment of IPBES
Abstract
The Land Degradation and Restoration assessment that was approved by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Plenary in 2018, focuses on land and soil degradation and its consequences, and suggests possible interventions. The assessment provides a depressive picture on the present processes and their impact on human well-being. Urgent changes are needed to slow and reverse these processes. The first step is to commit to changes that have to be implemented at a global scale. The IPBES assessment has formulated for the first time that i) we have to reduce the use of resources and energy through technological improvements; ii) our value systems must turn away from the paradigm of growth and at the same time we have to reduce wasting; iii) and we have to restore degraded natural capital through investing in restoration interventions.
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