With the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration underway, review finds successes and many challenges ahead to restore Africa’s degraded lands and improve livelihoods The first ever stocktake of restoring Africa’s forests and landscapes, launched during Africa Climate Week, shows that more needs to be done to fully tap the enormous opportunity for the continent to… Continue reading Every year, vanishing forests in Africa results in 3 % GDP loss
Tag: Desertification
Save land to fight climate change, says Delhi Declaration
Soumya Sarkar and Joydeep Gupta Land-based solutions must segue into actions to stem biodiversity loss and restrain global warming, the United Nations desertification summit said in a declaration The biennial summit organized by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and hosted by India said at the end of two weeks of deliberations that… Continue reading Save land to fight climate change, says Delhi Declaration
China’s ‘new Silk Road’ could expand Asia’s deserts
Liu Qin China’s massive Asian infrastructure network of proposed new roads and railways, new ports and airports, linking 65 countries to itself must grapple with the same problem as the ancient Silk Road it has been named after. Sand. Deserts present as big a problem along the “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the shores of… Continue reading China’s ‘new Silk Road’ could expand Asia’s deserts