An international research team has developed the world's first 30-meter resolution dataset to track changes in land ...

Accelerating progress to restore 1.5 billion hectares of degraded land around the world and jumpstarting a trillion-dollar land restoration economy will be the focus of this year’s Desertification and ...

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Four football fields of land degrade into desert every second. That equates to an area almost as large as Ethiopia each year.

2024 will mark the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. The sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Convention to Combat ...

With more lands around the world facing increasing deterioration and degradation, the United Nations ... on the implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

Nearly one half of the planet's land mass is on the brink of turning into non-arable desert, according to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). These already arid lands ...

The World Bank Group is attending the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Learn how WBG integrates nature, climate, ...

The World Atlas of Desertification has warned that 75% of the world's soils are already degraded, affecting 3.2 billion people in all. According to forecasts from the United Nations Educational ...