Land degradation is not just an environmental problem. Land degradation increases risks to human health and the spread of new diseases. It drives forced migration and enflames conflicts over scarce resources. It is a leading contributor to climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty, and food insecurity. In other words, land degradation is a core challenge of sustainable development.
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Ministers of the environment, heads of UN organizations, and lead negotiators called for focusing on scaling up implementation, underscoring that complex global challenges “must be met with cooperation, compromise, and collective action.” Nine thematic roundtable sessions explored cross-cutting implementation issues at the local, regional, and global levels.
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