Dear colleagues,
I congratulate you to the zero draft. Under principle 3 one could explicitely include under application that it should amongst other issues contribute to "the regeneration of degraded soils".
In the accompanying documents you may be interested to include a recent report of the IRP "Assessing Global Land Use: Balancing Consumption with Sustainable Supply." You can download full report, summary and fact sheet here:
In the key portfolio of measures the report recommends to develop an investment programme for the regeneration of degraded soils.
Best regards
Stefan Bringezu
Prof. Dr. Stefan Bringezu
Director
Material Flows and Resource Management
Wuppertal Institute
P.B. 100480, 42004 Wuppertal, GERMANY
Professor for Sustainable Resource Management
University of Kassel
Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR)
Wilhelmshöher Allee 47, 34117 Kassel, GERMANY
Stefan Bringezu