The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body for assessing the science related to climate change, approved a special report, “Climate Change and Land,” at its 50th Session held in early August 2019. The report’s full name is Climate Change and Land, an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems, and is the second in a series of Special Reports to be produced in the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Cycle....