By 2030, we will have achieved our water, agriculture and nature goals through a single, coherent approach at catchment area level, in which strong regional coalitions collectively enhance the landscape’s sponge capacity. In sponge landscapes, coalitions of landscape, agricultural and nature organisations and water managers strengthen the sponge function of soils – the ability to allow water to infiltrate, retain it and slowly release it again during droughts – in a way that is tailored to the landscape. Land users are unburdened and encouraged to implement a wide range of sponge measures across plots and sectors that, taken together, achieve the set objectives around water security, the agricultural transition and nature restoration. → more