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UN calls for US$2.6 trillion investment to reverse land degradation

Private sector investment crucial, UN executive says
Land totalling around 15 million square kilometres – bigger than Antarctica – is already degraded, and growing by about 1 million square kilometres each year, a new study states.
Simon Jessop and Pesha Magid
Restoring the world's degraded land and holding back its deserts will require at least US$2.6 trillion in investment by the end of the decade, the U.N. executive overseeing global
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