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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 ...
Nearly one half of the planet's land mass is on the brink of turning into nonarable desert, according to the United Nations ...
Speaking at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - COP-16 at Riyadh in Saudi Arabia on Monday evening, state environment minister Rao Narbir Singh said the AGWP ...
The 60 Million Trees Commitment A large-scale initiative has been launched to plant 60 million trees across India. Early efforts have already resulted in the planting of over 70,000 trees, with ...
The excessive heat exacerbates desertification, particularly in northern Nigeria, where land degradation is already a pressing issue. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD ...
The awarding of US$60.35 million to the Zambezi Watercourse by the Climate Investment Funds has far-reaching benefits towards accelerating regional efforts to building community resilience and ...
Sudan has told the United Nations’ top court that the United Arab Emirates is breaching the genocide convention by arming and ...
Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), said: “Land degradation and drought are major disruptors of our economy, stability, food ...