This guide highlights the essential role that land can play in helping to achieve the United Nations sustainable development goals and helping to adapt to our altered climate. Healthy land is essential to food security and biodiversity, but it also captures and stores the carbon that’s largely responsible for climate warming. Degraded land, on the other hand, is commonly a source of it. Land is the nexus where climate change and other environmental challenges converge.
The goal of this report is to bridge the gap between international efforts to promote climate change adaptation and those to protect and restore healthy land. In particular, the report seeks to align the climate adaptation goals of the UNFCCC with UNCCD’s land degradation neutrality targets.
The report is envisioned as a supplement to the technical guidelines for the formulation and implementation of NAPs. It offers a step-by-step approach to integrating the principles and objectives of the LDN framework within climate change adaptation planning and implementation. It identifies where and how these broad goals intersect, and it reveals how activities, knowledge, training, monitoring and funding sources can be better leveraged when they serve both climate change adaptation and LDN.
