{"id":28523,"date":"2024-12-07T09:27:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T03:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28523"},"modified":"2025-04-08T19:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:28:41","slug":"business-4-land-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/business-4-land-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Business 4 Land Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Business 4 Land Initiative<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the United<strong> Nations Convention to Combat Desertification\u2019s<\/strong> (UNCCD)<strong> main initiative<\/strong> to engage the private sector in <strong>sustainable land and water management.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It helps companies and financial institutions manage risks and seize opportunities tied to land degradation and drought.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim:<\/strong> It aims to <strong>restore 1.5 billion hectares of land by 2030<\/strong>, contributing to Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), a global commitment to achieve net zero land degradation by 2030, as well as enhancing drought resilience.<\/li>\n<li>B4L\u2019s work is built around three key pillars:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Business operations and value chains:<\/strong> Promote sustainable practices and set targets for reducing land-related impacts across business operations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finance:<\/strong> Support the creation of sustainable finance solutions for land restoration and drought resilience.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advocacy:<\/strong> Advocate for policies that foster a business environment conducive to sustainable land and water management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>What is the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was <strong>established in 1994 to<\/strong> protect and restore our land and ensure a safer, just, and more sustainable future.<\/li>\n<li>The UNCCD is the <strong>only legally binding framework<\/strong> set up to address desertification and the effects of drought.<\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>197 Parties to the Convention<\/strong>, including 196 country Parties and the European Union.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>\u00a0Q1: What is the aim of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN)?<\/h3>\n<p>The aim of LDN is to preserve the land resource base by ensuring no net loss of healthy and productive land via a combination of measures that avoid, reduce and reverse land degradation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2024\/12\/1157801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Private sector urged to act as world faces $23 trillion loss from land degradation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business 4 Land Initiative is the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification\u2019s (UNCCD) main initiative to engage the private sector in sustainable land and water management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}