Life on Land
About
Goal 15 is about conserving life on land. It is to protect and restore terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and stop biodiversity loss.
Earth’s ecosystems are vital for sustaining human life, they contribute to over half of global GDP and encompass diverse cultural, spiritual, and economic values.
However, the world is facing a triple crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss.
Between 2015 and 2019, at least 100 million hectares of healthy and productive land were degraded every year, impacting the lives of 1.3 billion people.
Agricultural expansion is the direct driver of almost 90 per cent of deforestation. This is in direct relation to our food systems, and oil palm harvesting accounted for 7 per cent of global deforestation from 2000 to 2018.
Global and regional efforts to sustain forest ecosystems as well as their social, economic and environmental functions are essential, in particular for developing countries and the tropics.
We need to shift humanity’s relationship with nature to achieve Goal 15, and realize that nature is the root of our life of earth. The recently adopted Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework provides renewed impetus for Goal 15, outlining four outcome- oriented goals to be achieved by 2050 and 23 targets to be achieved by 2030.
Publications
Alola, A. A., Adebayo, T. S., & Olagunju, I. (2023). Assessment of sectoral greenhouse gas emission effects of biomass, fossil fuel, and (non)metallic ore utilization of the Nordic economy. Mineral Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13563-023-00390-2
Azadi, H., Burkart, S., Movahhed Moghaddam, S., Mahmoudi, H., Janečková, K., Sklenička, P., Ho, P., Teklemariam, D., & Nadiri, H. (2022). Famine in the Horn of Africa: Understanding Institutional Arrangements in Land Tenure Systems. Food Reviews International, 38(S1), 829-845. https://doi.org/10.1080/87559129.2021.1888974
Cabacaba, N., & Daǧbaşi, M. (2014). Application possibility of parabolic through solar thermal power plant technology in North Cyprus. Technical Proceedings of the 2014 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Expo, NSTI-Nanotech 2014,
Edgü, E., Taluğ, M., & Özgece, N. (2015). Divided shopping: A syntactic approach to consumer behavior. A/Z ITU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, 12(3), 175-188. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84958769262&partner…
Kayan, G., Riazi, A., Erten, E., & Türker, U. (2021). Peak unit discharge estimation based on ungauged watershed parameters. Environmental Earth Sciences, 80(1), Article 42. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-020-09317-4
Liu, H., Ampah, J. D., Afrane, S., Adun, H., Jin, C., & Yao, M. (2023). Deployment of hydrogen in hard-to-abate transport sectors under limited carbon dioxide removal (CDR): Implications on global energy-land-water system. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 184, Article 113578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.113578