A New Deal for Nature: Restore the Degraded Planet

This brief details how unsustainable human activities and climate change degrade ecosystems globally, threatening food security, water supplies, and biodiversity while reducing agricultural productivity and resilience. It outlines the scope of this environmental decline, which impacts billions of people and causes immense economic losses, alongside the potential for massive landscape and marine restoration. To achieve global targets during the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the document outlines necessary methods including shifting government policy incentives, securing local land tenure, increasing tree cover, and adopting agroecological practices.