A Statement on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land from Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

By Staff, IPCC Response, IPCCResponse

We—Indigenous Peoples and local communities—play a critical role in stewarding and safeguarding the world’s lands and forests. For the first time, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today recognizes that strengthening our rights is a critical solution to the climate crisis.

Farming Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis

By Jonathan Foley, Medium

If we look at the whole board, we can see numerous opportunities to work together — across economic sectors, geographic locations, and local-to-national scales — to reduce emissions, create carbon sinks, restore healthy ecosystems, create jobs and local economic benefits, improve human wellbeing, and stop global warming.

What is Earth For?

By Courtney White, The Grass Canoe

How do we build resilience economically and ecologically for a rapidly changing world? How do we scale-up hopeful solutions to serious problems? How could we work together more collaboratively despite significant cultural and political differences? How were we going to confront a warming globe and slow down climate change?

In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s Special Report on Climate Change and Land

By Daisy Dunne, Josh Gabbatiss, Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief

In this detailed Q&A, Carbon Brief unpacks what the IPCC's Special Report on climate change and land says about how climate change affects the land and vice versa, as well as other key topics such as food security, negative emissions and how to tackle the overlapping challenges associated with how humans use the land.

Drawing Down Atmospheric Carbon

By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul

There are two ways of addressing rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon; reduce the amount of carbon emissions or increase the amount of carbon removed from the atmosphere. Most of our efforts have been focused on reducing emissions. I’d like to shift the conversation to drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide.

From Despair to Repair

By Vicki Robin, Vicki Robin blog

As a story teller and pot-stirrer and social innovator I am now on the hunt for what will put the soil and water and regeneration story on everyone’s lips, to have teenagers to grandmothers march for healthy soil, to have policies that transform degraded land into garden landscapes.

The Next Regeneration

By Greta Moran, Grist

Dobson’s work is an early step toward finding a way to grow food that restores, rather than exhausts, the earth. “We’re not all the way there yet,” he said. “Humanity has yet to discover 98 percent of what’s under our feet.”

The Wild Way to Rapid Transition – How Rewilding can Slow Climate Breakdown, Protect from its Worst Effects and Improve Biodiversity

By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance

Rewilding demands a cultural shift and this will be closely related to the shift needed for rapid transition in other areas. Sharing space with messy, complex nature and predators with large teeth is something to which we can and must adapt.

Understanding Where our Bread is Really Buttered

By Martin Peck, Feasta

My overriding (and underlying) point is that Agriculture and Land Use (/abuse) are fundamental to everything else and they are not given a fraction of the attention they deserve

“The Story of Soil Is the Story of All of Us”

By Annie Leonard, Tom Newmark, YES! magazine

For as long as humans have engaged in agriculture, and even before, we’ve relied on healthy soil and the organisms it supports.