ELD – THE ECONOMICS OF LAND DEGRADATION INITIATIVE

ELD is a global initiative that makes the values of land and its ecosystem services count in decisions: We provide robust economic evidence and support its use in land decisions with the aim to inform, promote, and scale land solutions for transformative change. These solutions include sustainable land management and restoration practices, policy instruments and institutional design, and financing for land. In working at the science-policy-practice interface, ELD brings scientific knowledge and evidence into political and business discourses and decision making.

Established in 2011 between the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the European Commission and hosted by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the ELD Initiative recently entered its second decade of activities. More than ever, this needs to bring "Transformative action for land".

News

ELD Teaching in Iceland for the 4th consecutive year

On April 28-29, ELD was leading a two-day training on the economics of land degradation and restoration in Iceland as part of the 6-month Land Restoration Training program (GRÓ-LRT) that is under the auspices of UNESCO.

 

STATE OF FINANCE FOR NATURE RESTORATION FINANCE REPORT: Investments in restoration need to quadruple by 2030

ELD - in collaboration with UNEP and the Global Canopy - has released the fourth joint report „State of Finance for Nature“ focusing on ecosystem restoration

Economics of Drought report: Invest in healthy lands to cut billion-dollar costs of human-made droughts

Launched at UNCCD COP16, the Economics of Drought report makes the economic and business case for nature-based solutions to drought drawing on a wealth of evidence and case studies from various countries around the world.

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