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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.
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This would help us to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, like dying oceans and widespread desertification, which will harm people around the world, especially the poor.
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.
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.
Organic matter content is usually higher in organically - managed soils, indicating higher fertility and stability of organic soils as well as moisture retention capacity, which reduce the risk of erosion and desertification.
Hon. Abubakar Hassan Fulata representing Birniwa / Guri / Kiri - Kasamma federal constituency of Jigawa State has explained that the environmental challenges of desertification, flooding and typher grass which has been threatening the State in the last sixteen years was receiving federal government's attention for the first time.
Hon. Abubakar Hassan Fulata representing Birniwa / Guri / Kiri - Kasamma federal constituency of Jigawa State has explained that the environmental challenges of desertification, flooding and typher grass which has...
River systems have been heavily exploited for irrigation, which has hastened soil degradation, made the ground saltier, and contributed to creeping desertification.
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.
Trump signed into law last month a surprisingly strong allocation of $ 139.5 million for the Global Environment Facility, which supports programs to alleviate a host of environmental ills, including climate change, biodiversity and desertification.
By FRED PEARCE United Nations is poised to draw up a convention to halt desertification, the process by which fertile land turns into desert.
The weakening monsoons caused further desertification and vegetation loss, promoting a feedback loop which eventually spread over the entirety of the modern Sahara.
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.
Ms. Barbut said the decision puts the Desertification Convention on par with the Climate Change and Biodiversity Conventions, both of which have their own targets.
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.
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.
Land degradation in the drylands, commonly known as desertification, begins with the clearing of vegetation, which means «forests are the first step towards healing the drylands and protecting them from desertification and drought,» as Mr. Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Udesertification, begins with the clearing of vegetation, which means «forests are the first step towards healing the drylands and protecting them from desertification and drought,» as Mr. Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Udesertification and drought,» as Mr. Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UDesertification (UNCCD) observes.
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».
As opposed to the clear - cutting required in most plant agriculture which, of course, does absolutely nothing to the environment because deforestation isn't the first step in desertification.
The Greenbelt movement, which she founded in 1977 and which she lead for more than 30 years, thus combined the war against poverty, the fight against corruption, teaching as well as reforestation and the fight against desertification.
It appears to me that the family of humanity is beginning to come face to face with a myriad of growing global challenges — air pollution, sea and land contamination, global warming, peak oil, diminishing global supplies of grain, overfishing, the dissipation of Earth's scarce resources, desertification, deforestation, urban sprawl and autoban congestion are examples — the sum of which could soon become unsustainable, given a finite planet with the relatively small size and make - up of Earth.
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.
Desertification is a «creeping phenomenon» involving many positive feedbacks which tend to accelerate the process to the point of irreversibility, as is observed in the Sahel of Africa.
The genocide in Darfur IS caused by permanent drought which is desertification.
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).
An apparent example is his invitation to deliver a speech to Swiss Re during their 150 year anniversary celebration in London in September, in which he is quoted as saying ``... only now due largely to my TED talk on the desertification aspect of the global problem, was the public becoming aware of such hope in a world so short on solutions...».
Updated, 8:10 p.m. President Obama today joined the parade of leaders addressing a United Nations session hailing the adoption of 17 Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, which range from extremely lofty («end poverty in all its forms everywhere») to doable but difficult («sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss»).
There's been a lot of talk lately about the food crisis, and particularly linking it to growing crops for biofuels (a highly inefficient process which seems to drive prices up, particularly in US policy), but Frances More Lappe argued in her books several years ago that there is, in fact, enough food on the planet to feed us all, but localized political troubles (grain rotting in Haitian ports), increasing desertification, food waste, and problems with global supply chains are better explanations for why so many go hungry.
«If there are no while zones on top of the volcanoes, the solar radiation is absorbed, which generated an increase in temperature and local climate change, like desertification or the inhibition of pluvial precipitation,» Degaldo told SciDev.net in an interview.
Mir is said to be working with additional researchers to improve his design to make it smaller, so «swarms» of the Tumbleweeds could be deployed across sand dunes to help create 3D maps of how the wind moves across the dunes, which may lead to ideas on possible solutions for slowing down or reversing the desertification process.
Continued greenhouse gas emissions are likely to be associated with changes in rainfall patterns, desertification, more frequent storms and rises in sea level, all of which have implications for human movement.
The change raised some big questions, including what would happen to the various international environmental agreements to which Pakistan is a signatory, including the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and similar conventions on biological diversity, desertification and wetlands.
Plants make more effective use of water when CO2 rises which reduces desertification.
«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.
It is a simple discrepancy which must be laid to rest, or there is no way to conclude anything about the system: how were CO2 levels maintained in a tight range over centuries, given all the random influx and egress from volcanic activity, environmental perturbations, deforestation, desertification, fossilization, agricultural trends, wars, oceanic turnover, continental drift, weathering of minerals, fires, floods, etc..., if there is not a fairly strong feedback holding them in place?
In recent years, the extent to which this «desertification» trend is caused by anthropogenic forcing versus natural variability has been the subject of considerable debate.
Unlike natural gas plants, small renewable projects do not have devastating environmental and climate impacts that aggravate food and water scarcity and desertification, issues with which much of sub-Saharan Africa already struggles.
The Red List of Trees of Central Asia identifies 44 tree species that are threatened with extinction; the «original» apple tree Malus sieversii, from which all domesticated varieties of apples were developed, is on the list: Compiled by international scientists and published by Flora & Fauna International, in collaboration with, the Red List of Trees cites over-exploitation, human development, pests and diseases, overgrazing, desertification and fires as the main threats to the trees and forests of Central Asia.
(Both cause plant cover to decrease which causes soil moisture decreases often making storms less frequent, less regular, less predictable and more intense, further decreasing plant cover, reducing or killing crops, eroding soil (leading to decreased fertility, water pollution, etc.) and spiraling down into desertification and the creation of wasteland from what had been a fertile, verdant landscape.
If this happens, it will be like the arrival of the Messiah, to lead the charge to end global warming which is leading us all to desertification of our home, Planet Earth which will lead to fighting over the remaining fresh water and soil and nuclear world war III which will have no survivors and leave the planet earth our home permanently radioactive and uninhabitable.