Private sector urged to act as world faces $23 trillion loss from land degradation. Droughts have surged by nearly 30 per cent in frequency and intensity since 2000, threatening agriculture and water security, while up to 40 per cent of the world’s land is degraded

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1. The private sector has been urged to make the sustainable management of land a key part of corporate and financial strategy going forward, as the world risks losing half of global GDP – estimated at $23 trillion – due to degradation.
   Business leaders have been meeting at the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) conference being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which is focusing on drought, land degradation and restoration issues.

   According to the UN, droughts have surged by nearly 30 per cent in frequency and intensity since 2000, threatening agriculture and water security, while up to 40 per cent of the world’s land is degraded, which means its biological or economic productivity has been reduced

2. Too bad the US is arguing that climate mitigation measures should remain voluntary and world leaders can’t even agree that toxic chemicals from plastic production should be regulated.

   I’m really starting to suspect we just might be screwed.

3. Is this an Onion article? Anyone actually think the private sector would ever act upon such.

4. Money money money

5. The dollar value is meaningless, a depraved distraction. Humanity itself is on the line.

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