Sentences with phrase «called desertification»

The knowledge gained here is shared with the world, where the rapid expansion of desert, called desertification, affects 1 billion people in 100 countries.

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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.

The U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification estimates that soil, as a sink for carbon dioxide, provides a larger reservoir than either vegetation or the atmosphere, calling its sequestration capabilities «unparalleled.»

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.

UN Heads call for assistance to address linked climate change, biodiversity and desertification threats

On the continent of Vainqueur about a century ago, a mysterious phenomenon called «desertification» began encroaching from the western side of the continent, turning all land it reaches into sand.

The possible biological effects of this temperature increase are staggering, such as the loss of millions of species and desertification of land (which will reduce the ability of this planet to feed the species, including other humans, which call it home).

He blamed Western industrialized nations for hunger, desertification and floods across the globe, and called for «drastic solutions» to global warming, and «not solutions that partially reduce the effect of climate change.»

«For example, there was a call coming out on slow - onset events, which, in the UNFCCC language, means sea - level rise, glacial retreat, ocean acidification, desertification.