The " Investing in Land's Future: Financial needs assessment for UNCCD" report, launched today at the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to UNCCD in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, calls for US$1 billion in ...
Faqeeha said he hoped the talks would bring more global awareness to the threat posed by degradation and desertification. “If we continue to allow land to degrade, we will have huge losses ...
The Taklimakan covers 337,600 square km, making it China's largest desert and the world's second-largest shifting desert, according to Xinhua. The completion of the ecological barrier around the ...
Human-caused global warming helped increase dry conditions on every continent, scientists said in a new report, as talks on halting desertification were underway in Saudi Arabia. By Raymond Zhong ...
Ulan Bator, Dec 3 Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrai Oyun-Erdene has urged nations to strengthen collaboration in combating desertification, highlighting its increasingly severe impact on global ...
By 2050, three-quarters of the world's population could be affected by drought, the UNCCD warns. Human activities also contribute to desertification, including unsustainable farming practices that ...