On December 2nd, 2024, the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification ...

Healthy soil is vital for water and food supply. But much fertile land is heavily degraded and turning to desert. Over the ...

The COP28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action, endorsed by 160 nations to ...

UNCCD COP16 has put the spotlight on land degradation and desertification. This momentum now needs to be turned into ...

Just over 75 percent of the world's land has been left "permanently drier" over the previous three decades, a UN-backed report coinciding with COP16 talks on desertification in Saudi Arabia said on ...

Ibrahim Thiaw, executive secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), addresses the closing ...

The UN report comes as world leaders meet in Saudi Arabia for the agency's COP16 conference on land desertification.

In his opening remarks, Anthony Nyong, the African Development Bank’s Director of Climate Change and Green Growth, stressed ...

Just over 75 percent of the world's land has been left "permanently drier" over the previous three decades, a UN-backed report coinciding with COP16 talks on desertification in Saudi Arabia said ...

Pollution, climate crisis, habitat loss and exploitation of nature have pushed a million plant and animal species to the ...