The economic toll of land degradation exceeds $6 trillion each year. Alfadley said: "Saudi Arabia is seeking to strengthen efforts under the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification to ...

The private sector has been urged to make the sustainable management of land a key part of corporate and financial strategy going forward, as the world risks losing half of global GDP - estimated at ...

Land degradation is undermining Earth’s capacity to sustain humanity, and failure to reverse it will pose challenges for generations to come, a new United Nations report found. A million sq km of land ...

Yet, our global ocean-going presence has all but disappeared in the past half century. To truly understand the degradation of U.S. shipbuilding, we must go back 100 years to see the growth and ...

And that is not right. Because essentially the main driver of land degradation in the world is food production... which is in the hands of the private sector," Thiaw said, adding that as of now it ...

“COP16 is a pivotal conference, one that must prioritize resilience-based responses to tackling the escalating crisis of land degradation,” said Susan Gardner, director of the Ecosystems Division at ...

He spoke of his personal experience of meeting farmers, mothers, and young people affected by the loss of land. “The cost of land degradation seeps in every corner of their lives.” “They see the ...

School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China Shanghai ...

The environmental, social, economic and health risks of plastics need to be assessed alongside other environmental stressors, like climate change, ecosystem degradation and resource use.