{"id":4529,"date":"2019-08-14T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T06:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4529"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","slug":"climate-crisis-cannot-be-tackled-without-shift-away-from-damaging-land-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/14\/climate-crisis-cannot-be-tackled-without-shift-away-from-damaging-land-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Crisis Cannot Be Tackled Without Shift Away From Damaging Land Use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By WWF<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way we currently use land is both a major contributor to climate change and placing unsustainable demands on the land systems in which humans and nature depend, according to an authoritative new report presented in Geneva today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u2019s <em>Special\nReport on Climate Change and Land<\/em>, explores the relationship between\nclimate, people and land in a warming world. It warns that climate change is\nplacing additional stress on land, increasing degradation, biodiversity loss\nand food insecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr Stephen Cornelius, chief advisor on climate\nchange and IPCC lead for WWF, said:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThis report sends a clear message that the way\nwe currently use land is contributing to climate change, while also undermining\nits ability to support people and nature. We need to see an urgent\ntransformation in our land use. Priorities include protecting and restoring\nnatural ecosystems and moving to sustainable food production and\nconsumption.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cGood land choices are fundamental to tackling\nthe climate crisis. A shift to sustainable land management must be accompanied\nby the necessary rapid and deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions if we are to meet\nthe 1.5\u00b0C goal of the Paris Agreement. Action on one alone is not enough.\u201d <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/wwf.panda.org\/wwf_news\/?351210\/climate-crisis-cannot-be-tackled-without-shift-away-from-damaging-land-use-major-report-warns\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By WWF The way we currently use land is both a major contributor to climate change and placing unsustainable demands on the land systems in which humans and nature depend,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}