Sentences with phrase «by desertification»

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.

One - third of Africa is threatened by desertification, and land cover changes since 2000 are responsible for half to three - quarters of the value of lost ecosystem services.

In his concluding chapter, Snyder describes the Holocaust as an act of «ecological panic» -LSB-...] In the 21st century, he speculates, rapid and destructive climate change could lead to wholesale food shortages caused by desertification of huge areas of the planet, or alternatively drastic economic collapse and state bankruptcies.

The impact is the melting of the glaciers and the concomitant rising of sea levels that could sink swaths of low land areas in the near future, followed by the desertification of countries vulnerable to destructive climate change reactions.

15.3 by 2020, combat desertification, and restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land - degradation neutral world

China has developed industrial models to combat desertification, and reported that «the area affected by desertification has declined for three inventory periods in a row, since 2004.»

A large variety of youth - centric awareness - raising and nature education activities with the focus on challenges posed by desertification, land degradation and drought were showcased during the event.

The UNCCD Executive Secretary Monique Barbut addressed the audience, explaining how city residents are affected by desertification and what city dwellers can do to reduce the negative impacts of land degradation.

On this WDCD, we would like to remind everyone that threat to soil security unleashed by desertification, land degradation and the effects of drought constitute a peril to securing our common future.

The RCU Africa relocation serves to strengthen the implementation of the convention in the region most affected by desertification, drought and the effects of climate change.

The Conference in Ankara was responding to a key target for 2030, which is to combat desertification, and restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land - degradation neutral world.

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.

One third of the world is vulnerable to land degradation; one third of Africa is threatened by desertification

Not exact matches

As part of the CSO panel we advocated for organic agriculture as a means of farming that increases the resilience of soils to both water stress and nutrient loss and which contributes to combating desertification by preventing soil erosion and land degradation.

Desertification is caused by overcultivation, overgrazing and deforestation and results in soil exhaustion and soil erosion.

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.

We wish to conclude by urging government to, as a matter of urgency stop all these companies from further logging of the rosewood trees in northern Ghana that is already grabbling with desertification and other climate change impacts.

In northwest Africa, where what Werz has called an «arc of tension» runs through Nigeria, Niger, Algeria and Morocco, he said the projected massive population growth combined with small - onset changes brought about by climate change — like sea - level rise along the Niger Delta, the loss of hundreds of villages through desertification and the virtual disappearance of Lake Chad — is bad enough.

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.

«It's not a new phenomenon,» Jaffe says, but it has gotten worse with deforestation and desertification caused by poorly managed agriculture.

Any doubts that Canada is an «outlier» on climate change were dispelled this week, say critics, after the Conservative government announced it is withdrawing from a U.N. convention to combat desertification signed by 194 other nations.

And Africa continues to be plagued by civil wars, drought and desertification, political instability and the problem of refugees, deteriorating health infrastructures, and institutional decay.

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By the end of the 13th meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Ordos, China, 113 countries had agreed to specify concrete targets with clear indicators, to rehabilitate more land and reverse degradation, which currently affects over a third of the world's land resources.

The Rio Conference called on the United Nations General Assembly to establish an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) to prepare, by June 1994, a Convention to Combat Desertification, particularly in Africa.

Synergies are found when addressing problems caused by climate change, biodiversity conservation, desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD), such as:

The 25 experts will bring the latest science to bear on critical issues by contributing both a wealth of knowledge on desertification, land degradation and drought and extensive experience in translating science to inform decision making.

A the press - conference in honor of the World Day to Combat Desertification, the Head of Biological and Landscape Diversity of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus Ms. Natalia Minchenko noted that the experience of Belarus with rewetting as a one of the elements of ecological rehabilitation of degraded peatlands is being picked up by other countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

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.

The 2018 World Day to Combat Desertification (# 2018WDCD) urges you to move away from unsustainable land use and make a difference by investing in the future of land under the slogan, «Land has true value — invest in it.»

16.06.2016 — Wallerfield, Trinidad and Tabago — As part of the country's activities to celebrate the World Day to Combat Desertification, the University of Trinidad and Tobago hosted a lecture on sustainable development, given by UNCCD Secretariat's Capacity - Building Officer Dr. Richard Byron - Cox.

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.

WDCD was established by the UN General Assembly 23 years ago to raise awareness on the global and national actions that address desertification, land degradation and drought.

Two key projects spearheaded by the UNCCD / GM in addressing desertification: the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund; and the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI), were discussed during the meeting on the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change held between the Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy of France and President of COP21, Ségolène Royal, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), held in Bonn on 22desertification: the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund; and the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI), were discussed during the meeting on the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change held between the Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy of France and President of COP21, Ségolène Royal, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), held in Bonn on 22Desertification (UNCCD), held in Bonn on 22 February 2016.

Department of Environment and Forest will celebrate this year's WDCD by organizing a workshop, «World Day to Combat Desertification», on 17 June in Dhaka.

The Ministry of the Environment, Ecology and Forest celebrated the World Day by holding a conference on the 15 June, focusing the environmental challenges of land degradation and desertification.

The East Asian summer monsoon and desertification in Eurasia is driven by fluctuating Northern Hemisphere ice volume and global sea level during the Ice Age, as shown in a study published in Nature Communications.

Within the project development framework of the LDN Fund, which is co-developed by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and Mirova, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers dedicated to responsible investing, with the support of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Mirova has concluded a partnership agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Kingdom of Morocco related to the AAA Initiative.

As part of its campaign to tackle global environmental deterioration in particular by combatting the degradation of drylands — which cover up to one quarter of the world's land surface — the United Nations General Assembly designated 17 June as «World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought».

The stage featured is a remixed version of Green Hill Zone that has been flooded with sand, a result of «the heavy desertification caused by Eggman's industries».

An atmosphere clouded by super storms of sand from the large increase in desertification, the extra soot in the air from the burning forests, and the crop losses from soil degradation.

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.

Under BAU [Business As Usual], agriculture and civilization will collapse some time between 2050 and 2055 due to drought / desertification caused by GW [Global Warming].

The genocide in Darfur IS caused by permanent drought which is desertification.

The drought and fires in Australia, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Carolina, California, Greece and other places ARE being caused by the same desertification process and permanent drought.

They are dying from thirst, hunger and the by - product of desertification.

Now what Savory is advocating is to use land that is currently a net emissions source due to land use change resulting in desertification, and add that newly restored land to the Gross uptake of Carbon by all vegetated lands.

Most agricultural soils have lost 50 to 70 % of their original SOC pool, and the depletion is exacerbated by further soil degradation and desertification.

And by taking a cue from the humble yet noxious tumbleweed, science may be able to gather data about desertification in a unique way.

Life on land: Access to clean water helps to reduce deforestation and desertification rates by reducing the use of firewood to boil water.