The UN report comes as world leaders meet in Saudi Arabia for the agency's COP16 conference on land desertification.
The conference brought together global leaders, scientists, and policymakers to accelerate efforts in land restoration and ...
On December 2nd, 2024, the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification ...
UNCCD COP16 has put the spotlight on land degradation and desertification. This momentum now needs to be turned into ...
The COP28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action, endorsed by 160 nations to ...
Ibrahim Thiaw, executive secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), addresses the closing ...
While delegates at UNCCD COP16 hope that this could be the convention’s Paris moment, this hedges on the parties’ seriousness ...
The global economy could lose $23 trillion by 2050 due to land degradation, though halting this trend would cost $4.6 ...
In his opening remarks, Anthony Nyong, the African Development Bank’s Director of Climate Change and Green Growth, stressed ...
COP16 has highlighted the urgent link between desertification, land degradation and drought — which are worsening forced migration and threatening global stability ...