Land resources are degrading at an alarming pace, whichslow down the achievement of sustainabledevelopment in many countries in particular the developing countries. Target15.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) sets out a new globalambition: to achieve a Land Degradation Neutral World by the year 2030.#LandDegradationNeutrality is about bringing people-centered result-based management in the way we plan and use our terrestrial ecosystems, in order to ensure #sustainability.
Storified by CentreFor EarthWorks · Thu, Nov 30 2017 15:16:39
Thank you @LucGnacadja its an honour #YOUTH4LAND @Images_1 @ClimaticMind @ClimateWed @OlumideIDOWU @AminaJMohammed @0175davou @callmeyvan @Wangechi_Kiongo @Dzennypha @TabiJoda1 @DotunRoy @JoyNature1 @BaiyiKefas @UNEP @UNCCDcbm @EnrickaJ ... #Goal15 @FMEnvng @UNFCCC @UNDP https://t.co/RL7kP6F0so
@_CFEW @Images_1 @ClimaticMind @ClimateWed @OlumideIDOWU Very much pleased to join this chat #youth4land
Good evening and welcome @LucGnacadja Thanks for this unique opportunity to discuss “The Concept of Land Degradation Neutrality”. #Youth4Land #SLM #Land #LDNtargets #COP23 #Uniting4Climate @UNCCD we are happy to host you today. @ClimaticMind @ClimateWed @greenimpactint
Q1. @LucGnacadja Can you briefly tell us what is Land Degradation Neutrality? and Why does it matter in the quest for a sustainable future? #Youth4Land @UNCCD @UNEP @UNCCDcbm @AminaJMohammed @ClimateWed
A1, To understand #LandDegradationNeutrality, you must 1st understand what is #LandDegradation: the long-term loss of biological and economic productivity of land, mostly due to misuse, & from which land can’t recover unaided #Youth4Land @UNCCD
A1, #LandDegradationNeutrality is about ensuring that, by 2030, we restore more than we degrade our land resources. It’s about avoiding degradation & restoring already degraded land. #Youth4Land @UNCCD
#LandDegradationNeutrality is about bringing people-centered result-based management in the way we plan and use our terrestrial ecosystems, in order to ensure #sustainability. #Youth4Land @UNCCD
A1, #LandDegradationNeutrality will be achieved when “the amount & quality of land resources necessary 2 support ecosystem functions & services and enhance food security remains stable or increases within specified temporal and spatial scales and ecosystems” #Youth4Land @UNCCD
A1, Achieving #LandDegradationNeutrality is essential for sustainability. We all depend on #soil, the skin of the land, for producing food, fodder, fibre, #forest we consume. Even the air we breathe! #Youth4Land @UNCCD
A1, #LandDegradation corrodes the 3 pillars (economic, social & environmental) of sustainability. One third of the world’s cropland has been abandoned in the past 40 years #Youth4Land @UNCCD
A1, Humanity has been living in a “land degradation era”. Nowadays we have nearly 1.5 billion ha of cropland, almost equal in area to the amount of cropland (2 billion ha) that has been abandoned by humans since farming began! #Youth4Land @UNCCD
A1, Achieving #LandDegradationNeutrality by 2030 will be equivalent to ushering humanity into ‘the restoration era’ of our planet. #Youth4Land @UNCCD
This is the firm, way of tackling the goal 15. Youth are the greatest fuel for this achievement! how does the United Nation promotes the youth organizations that have as objective to tackle environmental issue in their community?#Youth4Land #LDNTargets #Goal15 #LoveLand4Climate
Q2. @LucGnacadja What are the benefits associated with taking actions towards #LandDegradationNeutrality? #Youth4Land @UNCCD @Dzennypha @AminaJMohammed @ClimaticMind @ClimateWed @Wangechi_Kiongo @callmeyvan @Images_1 @UNEP @LotKaduma
The #Youth are known to be resourceful in imagination & creativity with resilient hope. They need to be enlightened & their capacities developed 4 action about the vast opportunities at hand through Sust. Land Managmt (#SLM) & #LandscapeRestoration. #Youth4Land @unccd https://t.co/SF9g8iFgxO