The ‘Stepping back from the precipice: Transforming land management to stay within planetary boundaries’ report released by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in collaboration with UNCCD.
The Land degradation affects an area of 15 million sq km, and 1.2 billion people globally.
The Economic cost of the land degradation is estimated to range between 6.3 and 10.6 trillion US Dollar annually.
Land is central to seven of the nine planetary boundaries, which are scientifically determined thresholds within which humanity can operate safely.