Integrated Land Use Planning

The integrated land-use planning and integrated landscape management (ILUP-ILM) are central to creating synergies and informing policies for reaching major internationally agreed sustainability goals, including the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN).

To address today’s many related and intersecting sustainability challenges, more integrated planning needs to be supported by investing in and building appropriate governance structures and capacities.

Countries should be supported to use ILUP-ILM to create synergies and policy coherence among the three Rio Conventions. They should be encouraged to implement the strategies, goals, and associated development targets of these Conventions. Among those is the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, the Paris Agreement and the UN sustainable development goals along with LDN targets.

Country-level institutions, development agencies and multi- and bilateral donors need to be mobilized in support of projects and programs within national planning systems, encapsulate the principles of gender-sensitive ILUP-ILM and LDN to minimize trade-offs and environmental externalities and maximize multiple benefits.

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Sustainable Energy

At the intersection of energy, land and biodiversity, the Rio Conventions offer complementary entry points for sustainable energy that amplify co-benefits across climate action, ecosystem health and land restoration.

Food Systems: Nature-Positive Food Production

Explore how nature-positive food production aligns the goals of the Rio Conventions to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation while advancing food security and livelihoods.

Gender Mainstreaming

COP requested the UNCCD secretariat to sustain its advocacy for the recognition and expansion of women’s land rights, particularly for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. These efforts build on the global visibility and high-level advocacy achieved through the “Her Land”.