When it comes to Global Sustainability, Land is Everything
(Published in The Peninsula, December 30th, 2024) The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) recently held in Riyadh, demonstrated that when it comes to global sustainability, “land is everything.” There is a lot of global attention and discussions focused on the issue of climate change. These discussions focus on the need to mitigate the emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause it, as well as the urgent need to adapt to its worsening effects. Similarly, discussions regarding biodiversity and ecosystems, another major global environmental challenge, tend to emphasize the need to reverse the loss of habitats and ecosystems, with a mounting prominence on shifting the focus from “conserving nature” towards achieving “nature positive” outcomes. Of course, both issues are strongly interrelated. The loss of forests and other carbon-rich ecosystems release carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, the principal greenho...

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