The ELD Impact Report 2025 showcases how economic evidence from land assessments informs policies, investments, and restoration efforts worldwide. It highlights both the year’s achievements and ELD’s decade-long global impact.
The ELD Initiative recently convened experts in Bonn to develop a unified framework for enhancing synergies across the Rio Conventions. The approach will be piloted in Mongolia and aims to support countries in implementing coordinated, land-based…
The ELD Initiative celebrates 15 years of advancing evidence-based solutions to address land degradation worldwide. Marking this milestone, ELD reflects on its impact to date while looking ahead to the next chapter of turning economic knowledge into…
For every dollar invested in protecting nature, thirty are spent destroying it – the new SFN report report, co-authored by UNEP, ELD and Global Canopy reveals why redirecting finance is key to a nature-positive economy.
From 29th of September to 1st of October, leading experts from the ELD Working Group came together in Potsdam, Germany for a joint Writeshop with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) addressing financing opportunities for…
Join us in showcasing innovative solutions and building a drought-resilient future: This competition calls for practical case studies addressing either economic and business cases or innovative finance mechanisms to support SLM and drought…
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.
ELD - in collaboration with UNEP and the Global Canopy - has released the fourth joint report „State of Finance for Nature“ focusing on ecosystem restoration
