Land Use examines how a company manages, converts, restores or protects terrestrial areas it controls or influences through its operations and value chain. It covers:
Avoidance of virgin-land conversion and destruction of High Conservation Value or High Carbon Stock ecosystems;
Sustainable management of production landscapes (agriculture, forestry, mining, infrastructure corridors, real estate);
Regeneration & restoration of degraded soils and habitats (e.g., re-wetting peatlands, rewilding quarries);
Land-use change (LUC) accounting for GHG emissions and removals under the Land-Use, Land-Use-Change & Forestry (LULUCF) framework;
Stakeholder & tenure aspects, including Indigenous Peoples’ land rights, Free Prior & Informed Consent (FPIC) and equitable benefit sharing;
Landscape- or jurisdiction-level approaches (e.g., EU Nature Restoration Law binding targets, zero-net-land-degradation commitments).