IUCN Position Paper for UNCCD COP14
Significant progress has already been made towards setting the LDN targets and now there is urgent need to build momentum in achieving these targets. The priorities are to ensure that national targets are fully embedded into sub-national policies and actions; to catalyse and coordinate action across the main sectors concerned with sustainable land management, including agriculture, water, and environment; and to prioritize Nature-based Solutions and ecosystem approaches for environmentally sound and socially equitable outcomes.
In this paper, IUCN recommends the following:
- Adopt Nature-based Solutions (NbS) as the preferred implementation approach through sound investment planning that leverages the multiple benefits derived from NbS, including managing the risks of drought and sand & dust Storms and mitigating conflicts and migration.
- Enhance investments in drylands as a neglected ecosystem through actions based on ecosystem restoration, which can simultaneously support meeting the LDN goals and advancing on commitments under the three Rio Conventions.
- Achieve progress towards gender equity through LDN actions.
- Create enabling conditions for investment in supply chains that incentivise multiple values of sustainable land management.
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