LAND GAP

An international team analyzed commitments made for years 2030, 2050, and 2060 - looking at national pledges and the implications for land use... Only a few of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and mid-century climate plans were very detailed in the treatment of land use. The 2023 update to last year's Land Gap report improves on this data, examining new country pledges and further analyzing existing pledges... One important finding is that the countries proposing the greatest amount of land to meet a ‘net zero' or decarbonization target are also among the largest users and exporters of fossil fuels. In all, just a handful of high and upper-middle income countries are responsible for over 85 per cent of total land use required to deliver climate pledges.