Sentences with phrase «for desertification»

As for desertification, «The unexpectedly rapid expansion of the tropical belt constitutes yet another signal that climate change is occurring sooner than expected,» noted one climate researcher in December.

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.

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

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.

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.

We know that desertification has necessitated more movement of cows for grazing towards the south, but we need to have a way of balancing the two.

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.

But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.

For instance, satellite imagery could be used to test whether it predicts the collapse of rangelands in the western United States and other places because of invasion of weeds or desertification, he says.

River systems have been heavily exploited for irrigation, which has hastened soil degradation, made the ground saltier, and contributed to creeping desertification.

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.»

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.

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The desertification of the Sahara has long been a target for scientists trying to understand climate and ecological tipping points.

Through a public - private partnership, the LDN Fund is expected to unlock new channels and higher levels of impactful financing for the fight against desertification and land degradation, thereby contributing to sustainable livelihoods in rural areas.

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

However, Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) as well as climate change can negatively affect the provision of these ecosystem services with potentially severe implications for food security, livelihoods, and human well - being.

The eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification convened under the theme «A stronger UNCCD for a Land - Degradation Neutral World» in September 2013 in Windhoek, Namibia.

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 theme for 17 June this year is «Desertification and Climate Change - One Global Challenge».

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

«There is strong demand for a Rio Conventions Project Preparation Facility to help finance large - scale, transformative projects that can deliver multiple benefits in addressing global challenges and in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals,» said Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary of the Desertification Convention.

Reversing the effects of land degradation and desertification through sustainable land management (SLM) is not only achievable; it is the logical, cost - effective next step for national and international development agendas.

2016 — Cairo, Egypt — As part of the World Day to Combat Desertification, the 2015 Land for Life Award winner SEKEM published a series of articles covering the role of sustainable development approaches in combating dDesertification, the 2015 Land for Life Award winner SEKEM published a series of articles covering the role of sustainable development approaches in combating desertificationdesertification.

The Conferences of the Parties to each of the Rio Conventions — namely the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)-- have underlined through numerous decisions the need for enhanced collaboration in order to harness synergies, enhance coordination and increase the effectiveness of operations.

This year's World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD) has a special significance for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

Since 2015 and as part of its commitment to increase financing for the Sustainable Development Goals, Mirova has been working alongside the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to launch the Land Degradation Neutrality Fund project, a public - private vehicle that intends to invest in profit - generating sustainable land management and restoration projects worldwide.

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.

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.»

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.

For example, a geography class on desertification can be expanded to include the testimony of people who have been forced to flee their villages due to the lack of grass for their animals to graze and water for them to driFor example, a geography class on desertification can be expanded to include the testimony of people who have been forced to flee their villages due to the lack of grass for their animals to graze and water for them to drifor their animals to graze and water for them to drifor them to drink.

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.

For generations, Vainqueur has suffered from rampantly accelerating desertification that now threatens the subsistence of the entire continent.

Global warming as an enhancer of natural phenomenon is the basis of concern for many phenomenon including desertification of land and sea masses.

Though I don't have a link specifically, this month's Sierra magazine discusses «desertification» as another climate change consequence for catastrophe.

Regarding desertification and greening (and ignoring the specious requirement for «competent scientists»), one must remember that human - ecological systems are coupled:

Because the amount of arable land is limited and what is left is being lost to urbanization, salinization, and desertification, it no longer possible to simply open up more undeveloped land for cultivation to meet production needs.

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.

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.

The values of commitment, persistence and patience, to stay with it until the goal is realized... The love for the land and desire to protect it from desertification and other destructive processes»..........

Well, that explains why Australia, «the canary in the coal mine for climate - driven desertification» (1), is «officially declared drought free» (2).

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.

«I would say that particularly for women, you're absolutely right, they will bear the brunt of looking for the food, looking for the firewood, looking for the place to migrate to when all of the grass is finally gone as the desertification moves south and you have to keep moving your livestock for your crops are no longer growing, they're burning up in the intense heat that we're now seeing reported across North Africa, into the Middle East, and into India.»

It highlights several implications for this sector, including altered seasonality, desertification and floods, damages caused by increased incidence of natural hazards, coastal erosion and loss of beach areas, and loss of natural and archeological attractions.

On the other side of the world, in Niger, farmers faced with severe drought and desertification in the 1980s began leaving some emerging acacia tree seedlings in their fields as they prepared the land for crops.

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.

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.»

It outlines potential solutions for combating desertification and land degradation.

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.