Did you know that land use is the only sector that can currently remove carbon from the atmosphere on a large scale?
Land use reforms have the potential to deliver 30% of the reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed by 2030.
A study by the New Climate Economy group found that if just 12% of the world's degraded lands were restored to production, we could feed another 200 million people and farmers' incomes would be raised by $40 billion a year!
These were the issues we discussed at the Food and Land Use Coalition meeting at UNGA, with Paul Polman of Unilever, Sara Menker of GRO, Vidar Helgesen of Norway, and great moderation by Zeinab Badawi of the BBC.
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