Sentences with phrase «desertification also»

Desertification also contributes to climate change, with land degradation and related loss of vegetation resulting in increased emissions and reduced carbon sink.

Not exact matches

Taylor also claims that human - induced warming has caused rising sea levels and desertification, hence «climate change refugees» which is an issue of human rights.

The committees would also determine whether or not the clean stoves and wonder bags project had assisted in eradicating desertification in Nigeria for future consideration.

Also in a paper presented by Nurudeen Bello on «Effects of Climate Change in Nigeria,» he stated that the adverse effect of climate change such as temperature rise, erratic ranfall, sandstorm, desertification, low agriculture yields, drying of water body lake Chad basin, gully erosion and constant flooding were daily realities in Nigeria.

They also need to learn how best to track desertification using satellite data.

The drought in the region also gave rise to a global discussion and concern for desertification as an emerging environmental problem.

This can be damaging: among the data collated by the project is the information that eucalyptus — which is often popular among plantation planners because it is fast - growing and easy to raise — is also highly efficient at finding and consuming water, and so might contribute to desertification.

Parties also took decisions on financing, knowledge brokering and the Rio +20 outcomes on land degradation, desertification and drought.

Desertification could also lead to an increase harmful water borne bacteria in the ocean.

Alongside paintings, caricatures and cartoons by such well - known artists as Marcin Bondarowicz of Poland and Lee Won - soo of Korea, the exhibition also presented heart - felt artwork by young students and informational videos on desertification and desert - restoration activities.

The Conference will also provide an opportunity to strengthen the network of the UNCCD national scientific and technical correspondents for the dissemination of knowledge and national experience in combating desertification, land degradation and drought.

We are all witnesses to how deforestation and forest loss have led to desertification in Africa and threatened many other regions of the world — also in Europe.

Also other lakes around the world contain less and less water + desertification: http://globalwarmingdenier.wordpress.com/sea-rising-or-not/

What will likely happen as a result of global warming is a migration of arable land northwards, but also mass desertification.

They also ignored the processes involved, including, but not limited to, the differences in properties of grazed lands compared to woodlands, the effect of the ocean and other sequestration sinks, and the fact the while undergoing deterioration and desertification, poorly managed grasslands are an emission source instead of a sequestration sink due to land use changes.

Delgado also notes that erosion and desertification have increased as the glaciers have melting, affecting nearby farming communities in the Valley of Mexico.

In many arid parts of the world, desertification is a major issue, and advancing deserts and loss of formerly fertile lands can have a big impact on not just the local environment, but can also affect where and how people live in those areas, many times leading to mass migrations from the country to the cities.

In this regard, ROAM will also enable countries to define and implement national or subnational contributions to the Bonn Challenge and concurrently allow nations to meet existing international commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the United Nations Framework to Combat Climate Change.

This in turn also leads to lateral growth of the Walker Cell — and therefore pole - ward migration (on both hemispheres) of the subtropical subsidence zone, where air under downward force is compressed at the Earth surface and semi-perminent high pressure systems lead to strucutural drought and desertification.

In fact, they not only suffer from the consequences of drought or desertification, but also from the fact that in most cases women do not have rights to land,» she says, before sharing some experiences from Africa where plots of degraded land were restored, but because women did not have rights to the land, they could not stake their claim.

She mentions the recent droughts witnessed by France, Canada and successive droughts in the US, and also points out the recent exodus of people from drought and desertification in the global south.

Global warming leads to rising temperatures of the oceans and the earth» surface causing melting of polar ice caps, rise in sea levels and also unnatural patterns of precipitation such as flash floods, excessive snow or desertification.

HL: I think those two areas for candidates for special reports have been very well recognised and I know that there is also a demand for special reports on climate change and desertification, I believe.

The new extremes of wind and rain are part of a larger pattern that also includes rapidly melting glaciers worldwide, increasing desertification, a global extinction crisis, the ravaging of ocean fisheries, and a growing range for disease «vectors» like mosquitoes, ticks and many other carriers of viruses and bacteria harmful to people.»

This critical land - use change will enhance aridity and desertification in many of the already water - stressed regions in South America, affecting not only the landscape but also modifying the water cycle and the climate of the region.

Increased desertification is also a possibilty.

Food supplies are also vulnerable to plant disease, pests, falling soil fertility, desertification, urbanisation, changing weather patterns, rising sea levels and rising levels of salination as soils are overirrigated.

This trend is unsustainable when you consider that by 2030, an area twice the size of South Africa will also become unproductive due to desertification and drought alone.

The UN Convention to Combat Desertification, the main assignment being to reverse desertification and land degradation, also gets aDesertification, the main assignment being to reverse desertification and land degradation, also gets adesertification and land degradation, also gets a failing grade.

Tree - nation believe that «fighting desertification is not only a good initiative that will reduce the effects of climate change, not to mention improve the lives of thousands of people, but that it can also be rewarding and fun!»

In Austin, the European Commission also hosted presentations on future - generation cars, bio-based industries, world desertification, smart cities of tomorrow, and research opportunities in various European countries.

The socio - economic background to the Darfur crisis that is also often ignored is the displacement of the Baggara from their pastoralist lands into the agricultural holdings of Darfur due to desertification.