Delivering an enabling environment and multiple benefits for land degradation neutrality: Stakeholder perceptions and progress.

ABSTRACT: Achieving land degradation neutrality (LDN) was adopted by countries in 2015 as one of the targets of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As LDN is a relatively new concept there is an increasing need for evidence on the potential socio-economic and environmental benefits of LDN as well as how an enabling environment for implementing LDN measures can be developed. This paper summarises the results from a global survey of LDN stakeholders, and a review of national progress in target setting that was commissioned by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in 2018. The study presents the perceptions of relevant stakeholders on the key components of an enabling environment for achieving and maintaining LDN (institutional, financial, policy/regulatory, and s

SUBMITTER: Allen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7422898 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature