Restoring Degraded Lands

Land degradation continues to be an enormous challenge human societies, reducing food security, emitting greenhouse gases and aerosols, driving the loss of biodiversity, polluting water, undermining a wide range ecosystem services beyond supply water climate regulation. Climate change will exacerbate several processes. Investment in diverse restoration efforts, including sustainable agricultural forest land management, as well set aside for conservation wherever possible, generate co-benefits mitigation adaptation morebroadly societal well-being economy. This review highlights magnitude problem some key challenges ecological restoration. There are biophysical limits Better integrating policies jointly address poverty, degradation, gas emissions removals is fundamental many existing barriers contributing climate-resilient development.