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1994 — students in Ken Cline's International Environmental Law and Policy class attended (and supported Southern NGO's in) negotiations over the UN Convention to Combat Desertification at the United Nations in New York.

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Organic agriculture counteracts resource depletion (soil, water, energy, nutrients), contributes positively to the problems associated with climate change and desertification and can help to maintain and enhance biodiversity at a global scale.

«Desertification can occur anywhere except in a desert,» says Uriel Safriel, a desert ecologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

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.

«Our model can help predict if forests are at risk of desertification or other climate change - related processes and identify what can be done to conserve these systems,» he said.

Jef Huisman, an aquatic microbiology professor and theoretical ecologist at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, said that the Princeton research shows that recently proposed early - warning signals for the desertification of arid ecosystems can be too simple, and possibly result in projections of future climate change that do not account for the complexity of nature.

Nearly 40 percent of Earth's land surface and a fifth of the world's population are impacted by desertification, and long - term research at Jornada provides insights into the causes and consequences.

Since 1982, researchers at this arid, semi-arid site have studied dramatic changes in vegetation, as perennial grasslands give way to shrubland in a process known as desertification.

12 September 2017 — Ordos, China — The Land Degradation Neutrality Fund (LDN Fund) was launched on 12 September 2017 at the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China.

A breakthrough agreement reached at the Conference of the Parties to the Convention to Combat Desertification means that the amount of healthy and productive land may stay stable starting in 2030.

To reaffirm the progress made at the summit, more than 80 Ministers from around the world issued the Ordos Declaration urging countries to step up efforts on all fronts to tackle desertification — one of the planet's most pressing global challenges.

A future that avoids, minimizes, and reverses desertification / land degradation and mitigates the effects of drought in affected areas at all levels... to achieve a land degradation - neutral world consistent with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

The campaign symbol, a green handkerchief which represents the idea of bringing more green into our world by combating desertification and land degradation, has been prominently featured in online campaigns and at live events.

At its 43rd Session (Nairobi, Kenya, 11 - 13 April 2016), the IPCC decided to prepare a special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.

At its 45th Session (Guadalajara, Mexico, 28 - 31 March 2017), the Panel approved the outline of Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.

A new publication, The Global Land Outlook (GLO), was recently launched at the 13th meeting of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China.Speaking at the launch, UNCCD Executive Secretary Monique Barbut said how land degradation and drought are global challenges «intimately linked» to food security, migration and employment, among others factors.

In the Sub-Sahara countries, the Desert is moving southwards at an annual rate of 0.6 km., putting 35 million people at risk from the effects of desertification in northern Nigeria alone.

Although desertification and fires are related in that they are both exacerbated by increasing average temperatures, I agree that they are not directly related (here in Australia at least) in the manner of fires causing deserts.

So anthropogenic land use changes (which are strongly biased toward deforestation and desertification) tend to raise the temperature observed at thermometer shelters around the world, while at the same time they tend to reduce the amount of energy available to warm the atmosphere above the surface.

Allan Savory delivered a highly publicized talk at a «Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED)» conference in February of this year (2013) entitled «How to fight desertification and reverse climate change.»

Our net emission may increase,» he said while speaking at a function on the occasion of the «World Day to Combat Desertification».

By 2020, ecosystem resilience and the contribution of biodiversity to carbon stocks has been enhanced, through conservation and restoration, including restoration of at least 15 per cent of degraded ecosystems, thereby contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation and to combating desertification which has a benefit of $ 7 for every dollar spent.

I think the appeal in engaging with SebastianH is that he actually believes that CO2 functions like a «blanket» in the atmosphere and thus warms the oceans, melts glaciers at their base, raises sea levels to catastrophic heights, acidifies the oceans, kills off 30,000 species per year, browns the Earth (desertification), etc., and that he is so convinced of the «rightness» of his beliefs that he thinks anyone who disagrees must be insane, stupid, mathematically challenged, a conspiracy theorist, etc..

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.

However, at the same time, she shared some good news: the UNCCD, in collaboration with Mirova, the governments of France, Luxembourg, Norway, and the Rockefeller Foundation, has launched a special fund for restoring degraded land and fighting desertification.

combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought in countries experiencing serious drought through effective action at all levels with a view to achieve sustainable development in affected areas.

Worse yet, on our present trajectory, it seems highly unlikely that the warming process will stop at 2 or even 3 degrees Celsius, meaning that later in this century many of the worst - case climate - change scenarios — the inundation of coastal cities, the desertification of vast interior regions, and the collapse of rain - fed agriculture in many areas — will become everyday reality.

At 3C, I think those kinds of failures (Russia, Australia, Pakistan) will be the rule thanks to desertification of the sub-tropics and the greater variability of rainfall patterns.

A paper used for guiding future business planning at the Anglo - Dutch multinational assumes that carbon dioxide emissions will fail to limit temperature increases to 2C, the internationally agreed threshold to prevent widespread flooding, famine and desertification.

At its 43rd Session (Nairobi, Kenya, 11 - 13 April 2016), the IPCC decided to prepare a special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.

At its 45th Session (Guadalajara, Mexico, 28 - 31 March 2017), the Panel approved the outline of Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.

At its session in Guadalajara in March 2017, the IPCC considered the outlines of the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, and Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.

With increasing land degradation, desertification and soil erosion hitting hard at the local level and poor women and men totally reliant on natural resources for their survival, the need for adaptation support could not be more urgent.

Experts have laid the blame for the increased desertification alternately at the feet of deforestation and overfarming, though some are now concerned that global warming could play a larger role in the near future — a consequence of the melting Tibetan glaciers.

Additional data and information sources at www.earth-policy.org Read more about desertification: Breathtaking Desert Photos Don't Show How Thirsty it is Desertification May Curb Global Warming in the Short Term «Wall of Trees» Planned to Help Stop Sahara Desertdesertification: Breathtaking Desert Photos Don't Show How Thirsty it is Desertification May Curb Global Warming in the Short Term «Wall of Trees» Planned to Help Stop Sahara DesertDesertification May Curb Global Warming in the Short Term «Wall of Trees» Planned to Help Stop Sahara Desert from Expanding

Enhanced action and international cooperation on adaptation is urgently required to enstue the implementation of the Convention by enabling and supporting the implementation of adaptation actions aimed at reducing vulnerability and building resilience in developing countries, especially in those that are particularly vulnerable, especially least developed countries, small island developing States and tiuther taking into account the need of countries in Africa affected by drought, desertification and floods.

There have been many tipping points at smaller scales, such as desertification or Mayan - era drought.)

At any moment you might be about to discuss water salinity in Bangladesh, or the acidification of the ocean, or desertification in sub-Saharan Africa.

Experts at the conference hosted by the Royal United Services Institute said it was likely that global warming would create huge flows of refugees as people tried to escape areas swamped by rising sea levels or rendered uninhabitable by desertification.

The multilateral treaty handling all aspects of biological diversity, including genetic resources, species and ecosystems, is one of the three U.N. conventions aimed at protecting the environment along with the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention to Combat Desertification.

At its 45th Session (Guadalajara, Mexico, 28 - 31 March 2017), the Panel approved the outline for Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.