On 25 September 2015, 193 countries came together in New York to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs. SDG 15 calls for the protection, restoration and sustainable management of land-based ...
Editor’s note: This story was originally published The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Land degradation is expanding worldwide at the rate of 1m sq km every year, ...
charting a path for global action following two weeks of intense negotiations on how best to tackle land degradation, desertification and drought, which affects one quarter of the world. The nearly ...
Building on mature big data and artificial intelligence technologies, Chinese scientists have developed a targeted system for land degradation management on the Arabian Peninsula, which can be ...
COP16 has highlighted the urgent link between desertification, land degradation and drought — which are worsening forced migration and threatening global stability ...
UNCCD COP16 has put the spotlight on land degradation and desertification. This momentum now needs to be turned into effective, coordinated action around the world. The Riyadh Political Declaration ...
The report by UNCCD Science-Policy Interface (SPI) — the UN body for assessing the science of land degradation and drought — points to human-caused climate change as the primary driver of this shift.
The view from the U.N. desertification summit on land degradation and how to build a career in agrifood systems. Sign up to Devex Dish today. In a year and era where bright spots can seem few and ...
The global economy could lose $23 trillion by 2050 due to land degradation, though halting this trend would cost $4.6 trillion, according to figures released at the U.N.’s COP16 desertification ...