Biovision Foundation endorses impact areas 4 and 5 of the Global Climate Action Pathway for Land-Use by the Marrakech Partnership to which we have contributed. We encourage other actors to also support and implement it. We are convinced that by following it and the 13 agroecological principles (as defined by the HPE), the Paris Agreement Goal can be achieved along with other key goals such as healthy nutrition, fighting poverty and biodiversity loss. We would like to point out that the same guiding principles should also be reflected in the NbS campaign.

The time to turn promises into action is now: decision-makers across sectors must act now to protect, restore, and ensure the sustainable use of forests and natural ecosystems. Climate Focus, serving as the Secretariat for the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) Progress Assessment, contributed to the Land Use Pathway, which lays out the opportunities and actions to address climate change and the global environmental crisis that we cannot afford to miss. We urge other actors to join us in its implementation.

The land-use sector is unique because it can be both a source and sink of emissions. High integrity carbon markets – which can simultaneously put a price on emissions and a value on carbon removals – can play a transformational role in driving much greater levels of private finance into nature-based solutions. As a contributor to this Pathway, IETA supports its recommendations and encourages all stakeholders to engage in its implementation.

IUCN as co-focal point of the Land Use theme calls for the implementation of the highest level of ambition of state and non-state actors to achieve the Paris Agreement global goal through nature-based solutions across the land use sector. The Land Use pathway lays out specific actions for each group of actors, which IUCN endorses and joins efforts through leadership in science, advocacy and implementation support.

ProVeg International focuses on accelerating the ongoing shift towards more plant-rich, healthy, and climate-friendly food systems. The Climate Action Pathway for Land Use of the Marrakech Partnership on Global Climate Action, to which we were happy to provide input, sets a roadmap to achieve the Paris Agreement and the Global Goals. Along with tackling food waste, shifting dietary choices towards less resource-intensive and more plant-based foods has been acknowledged as one of the key impactful actions to mitigate climate change and environmental degradation. Therefore, it is crucial to take more ambitious actions towards plant-rich, healthy, and climate-friendly food systems.

SIWI, as a water focal point organization in the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action and lead author of the Climate Action Pathway for Water, supports the Land Use Pathway’s vision and ambitions for a zero-carbon, climate resilient future. We worked collaboratively with the authors of this Pathway to align the two pathways and to identify synergies and cross-benefits. We believe that successful implementation of this Pathway is crucial to that of the Water Pathway, and vice versa. In this spirit, we encourage all stakeholders to support and drive the 2021, 2025, 2030, and 2040 actions identified in this Climate Action Pathway.

The Global Climate Action Pathway for the Land-Use Sector sets out a robust vision for the implementation of the Paris Agreement, promoting higher ambition of all stakeholders to collectively strive for the 1.5 °C temperature goal and a climate-neutral and resilient world. TNC, as a co-author for this Pathway, encourages other actors to follow it.

For the Tropical Forest Alliance, commodity supply chains are critical for employment, food supplies and livelihoods, but they need to be enhanced and evolve in order to meet today’s climate action and sustainability goals. The Global Climate Action Pathway – which we have contributed to – represents a strong effort to catalyse this transformation. We endorse it and encourage leaders in the multi-stakeholder community to join up.

In this critical decade to address the climate, biodiversity, and inequality crises, all sectors must be mobilized to enhance action in support of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. UNDP supports countries to access the finance needed to advance NDC implementation and has actively contributed to the development of the Global Climate Action Land Use Pathway. UNDP welcomes the launch of the Land Use Pathway as a robust roadmap to accelerate action in the land sector including halting deforestation and accelerating restoration. We encourage all actors to join us in supporting its implementation.