Sentences with phrase «through desertification»

Secondly, climate refugees include people along coastlines, whose homes are overtaken by the rising sea, as well as those who just flat out lose their water supplies through desertification, exhausting the existing supplies, or for numerous other reasons.

In addition to natural dust production, human activities have created another potential source for dust mobilisation through desertification.

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.

Not exact matches

The promotion of organic agriculture through education and training, in countries suffering desertification, could be a key to bringing degraded land back into production.

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.

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.

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.

I recently undertook a 6500 km tour through the Kalahari and southern Namibia where the first indications of desertification would become apparent.

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.

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.

The contribution to global dust emission of desertification through human activities is uncertain: estimates vary from 50 % (Tegen et al., 1996; Mahowald et al., 2004) to less than 10 % (Tegen et al., 2004) to insignificant values (Ginoux et al., 2001; Prospero et al., 2002).

Stopping Desertification Desertification is the spread of desert ecosystems through soil erosion and loss of groundwater.

In fact, climate change alone could affect migration considerably through the consequences of warming and drying, such as reduced agricultural potential, increased desertification and water scarcity, and other weakened ecosystem services, as well as through sea level rise damaging and permanently inundating highly productive and densely populated coastal lowlands and cities [165,166,167,168].