Global Land Programme News Today

A new report released today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) "Ten Facts about Land Systems for Sustainability" is a study intended to inform policies aimed at addressing challenges like how to limit the impacts of climate change, designing systems for sustainable food and energy production, protecting biodiversity, and balancing competing claims to land ownership.

  Mountain people are getting a new lease on life thanks to research carried out across the planet.   For the 500 million people who live in the shadows of high mountain peaks, transformative changes at all levels of decision-making must be kick-started to prepare for major shifts in ways of life stemming from the climate emergency and associated social upheavals, according to a new study. ‘It took a long time for policymakers to acknowledge the important role that mountains play in supp...