Riyadh

Current rates of land degradation pose a major environmental and socioeconomic threat, driving climate change, biodiversity loss, and social crises. Preventing and reversing land degradation are key objectives of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and are also fundamental for the other two Rio Conventions—the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). 

In this session we propose integrated actions to address land degradation from a food-land systems nexus that in tandem generate climate and biodiversity co-benefits, and suggest ambitious 2050 targets for the three Rio Conventions related to land and food systems. Finally, we deliver a call for action to recognize the pivotal role of land in addressing the challenges outlined in the Rio Conventions, to include sustainable food systems within intergovernmental agreements, and to take decisive collective global actions on the interconnected global crises we face to achieve existing 2030 and proposed 2050 targets.


Princess Noura Bint Turki Al Saud

Princess Mashael AlShalan 

Fernando T. Maestre

Dialogs

Bending the Curve of Land Degradation to Achieve Global Environmental Goals Using Food Systems

Bending the Curve of Land Degradation to Achieve Global Environmental Goals Using Food Systems