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In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these Goals are completed, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030.
Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss,

[New] Global coffee demand is expected to triple production by 2050, raising pressure on forests and other habitats in the tropical regions where it's grown as farmers look for new land to till.
[New] During the next decades, global population and economic growth will continue to increase groundwater demand and accompanying groundwater depletion and, when exacerbated by droughts, will probably increase land subsidence occurrence and related damages or impacts.
[New] Colombia, as a signatory to the New York Declaration on Forests, aimed by 2020 to halve natural forest loss and by 2030 to reach net-zero deforestation, meaning that any loss of forest will be offset by the replanting of native forest.
[New] As global populations grow, and people become wealthier and consume more, that need for new agricultural land is just going to increase, resulting in at least 2 million sq km of new farmland by 2050, and maybe as much as 10 million.
[New] The global food system is on course to drive rapid and widespread ecological damage with almost 90% of land animals likely to lose some of their habitat by 2050.
[New] The UN declared 2021-2030 the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, signalling a strong political commitment to restoration for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
[New] In response to the Bonn Challenge, the Government of Ghana pledged to restore 2 million hectares of degraded land by 2030.
[New] The New York Declaration on Forests includes among its ten goals the aim of restoring 350 million hectares of degraded forest land by 2030.
[New] Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, which aims to unlock €20 billion per year for biodiversity through various sources, including EU funds and national and private funding.
Japan needs to boost renewable energy by reforming outdated policies on land use and the national grid if it is to meet a new goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.
Annual losses in revenue and investment are projected to increase through 2040 as the oil and gas industry becomes more productive and prices increase.
The people in Northern Ireland, which will have the EU's only land border with Britain from 2021, deserved to know far sooner the terms of trade within their own country.
Government of India has recently highlighted that the period 2019-2020, will be observed as the Construction Technology Year, which will hellp elevate India's construction ecosystem to international standards.
Biden's power to permit renewable energy projects on federal land and his ability to wield existing regulatory power to clean up everything from cars to power plants - combined with market trends - could be enough to reach the Paris threshold.
Scientists around the globe are calling for countries to preserve 30% of lands and waters by 2030 and half by 2050 to abate the extinction crisis.
If current methods of food production continue, an extra 770,000 to 3.9 million square miles (199.4 million to 1 billion hectares) of land - up to three times the size of India - could be needed by 2050.
With the use of solar poles, The Trust for Public Land will avoid 30 metric tons of carbon dioxide and save $71,000 in electricity costs over the next 20 years.
Observers were anticipating international agreements to protect biodiversity on the high seas, regulate deep-sea mining, and draft a post-2020 Biodiversity Framework that would renew the expired Aichi targets.
20 million hectares of agricultural land are at high risk of abandonment in the EU in the period 2015-2030 due to several factors, such as biophysical land constraints.

Last updated: 10 January 2021

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