Assessment Report on Land Degradation and Restoration
Produced by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the report was approved at the 6th session of the IPBES Plenary in Medellín, Colombia. IPBES has 129 State Members.
Now available are the summary for policy makers, the full report, and comments of the reviews.
Worsening land degradation caused by human activities is undermining the well-being of two fifths of humanity, driving species extinctions and intensifying climate change. It is also a major contributor to mass human migration and increased conflict, according to the world’s first comprehensive evidence-based assessment of land degradation and restoration.
Further editions of IPBES-Assessmentes
- IPBES Report on Business and Biodiversity
- Interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health (IPBES nexus assessment)
- Underlying causes of biodiversity loss and drivers of transformative change and options for realising the 2050 vision for biodiversity (IPBES assessment on transformative change)
- The thematic assessment report on invasive alien species and their control
- The assessment report on the diverse values and valuation of nature