How will land restoration save the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?
What are the knowledge gaps that inhibit countries from leveraging the many economic, social and environmental benefits of land restoration?
How can we measure national knowledge and capacity gaps around sustainable land management?
What policy and financial instruments support community-driven land restoration and sustainable management of the terrestrial resources?
In this #GGKPwebinar, experts discuss how can we measure national knowledge and capacity gaps around the sustainable management of terrestrial resources — soil, forests, and freshwater — that underpin economies. This webinar was organized jointly with the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative.
Gitika Goswami, Programme Director, Development Alternatives (DA)
Peter Katanisa, Environment, Natural Resources & Blue Economy (ENB) World Bank Group and Coordinator of the Natural Capital Accounting Community of Practice Africa
Nazira Kerimalieva, Head of Sustainable Development and Environmental Statistics Department, National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic
John J. Maughan, Research Programme Manager, Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP)
Anil Markandya, Distinguished Ikerbasque Professor, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and Honorary Professor of Economics, University of Bath
Mark Schauer, ELD Secretariat Coordinator, Economics of Land Degradation (ELD)
Moderated by Robert Costanza, Vice-Chancellor’s Chair in Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University
The GGKP Natural Capital Expert Group, launched in November 2017, explores state-of-the-art methods, models, data and tools to achieve its three goals of pushing forward the knowledge frontier around natural capital and green growth. The group is comprised of 24 experts from across GGKP’s partner institutions, each with at least 10 years of experience working with natural capital. The group has has three main objectives:
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To learn more about the GGKP's work in Rwanda and Kyrgyzstan, please see:
The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative aims to transform global understanding of the economic value of productive land based on both market and non-market values, and to improve stakeholder awareness for socioeconomic arguments to improve sustainable land management, prevent the loss of natural capital, preserve ecosystem services, combat climate change, and address food, energy, and water security.
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