大国治沙:中国方案与全球范式

China’s Combating Desertification:National Solutions and Global Paradigm

"荒漠化"自1927年初创到1949年学术定名,在1977年成为全球热词,至今仍然是全球面临的重大环境问题和发展瓶颈,严重威胁着陆地生态安全与经济社会可持续发展。面对这一世界性顽疾--"地球癌症",文章聚焦联合国2030年可持续发展目标,参照中国70年防治荒漠化的"四梁八柱"方略和经验,为全球荒漠化治理开出"四味良药":制定公约议定书,统一全球履约和守约"度量衡";构建全球观测网,遥看旱地变化方寸间;编制全球自然沙漠(遗产)名录,为后代留下一片原生沙海;启动"全球治理"行动,力争实现2030土地退化零增长目标。

Desertification,since initial recognition in 1927 and common definition in 1992,through its vicissitudes,is still one of the serious global environmental issues face the world and exists as the bottleneck of the development.Desertification threats the terrestrial ecological security and limits the sustainability of socio-economic development.In consideration of the impacts of desertification,an“Earth Cancer”and a persistent disease,the authors contribute four prescriptions of“good medicines”for the global initiatives to combat desertification,on the basic framework of Chinese strategies and experiences of“four horizontal beams and eight pillars”,in line with the 15.3 goal of Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs);namely,development of Protocol of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification(UNCCD)and unification of Weights and Measures”(benchmarks and indicators)of the implementation and compliance of the UNCCD;setting up of global observation network to monitor the area change of dryland change;compilation of global natural desert(heritage)directory to leave behind landscape of aboriginal sand sea for future generations;initiation of“global governance action to combat desertification”to strive for achieving the target of Land Degradation Neutrality(LDN)at 2030.