How climate’s impact on land threatens civilisation – and how to fix it

Revolutionising the way we use land could cut emissions, provide sustainable food and reduce poverty

• Climate crisis reducing land's ability to sustain humanity, says IPCC

Healthy land provides the food, timber and fresh water essential to humanity's survival, but a UN report says the climate crisis is damaging this precious resource with potentially irreversible consequences.

The abuse of land by razing forests, intensive farming and loss of soils also produces a quarter of global emissions, further worsening the climate emergency, says the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).