Nigeria: Seven Key Issues to Shape Conversations As Unccd COP17 Kicks Off in Mongolia

Our Approach to Drought and Wildfire Is Economically Backwards

—Xuanyu Han—Getty ImagesThis year, governments and businesses across Europe,North America and parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean have been contending with the impacts of severe drought and wildfires. Every year, drought-induced losses alone cost the global economy an estimated $307 billion. Yet one of the assets that could make economies more resilient remains dangerously underfunded: healthy land.This week, leaders gatherin…

How is COP17 taking on the desertification fight?

The United Nations’ ongoing COP17 conference in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, is once again bringing together an array of countries to battle climate change. But this COP edition is focusing on a unique element of the shifting environment: desertification. As more fertile land degrades into dry, barren desert, the conference is workshopping climate solutions using its key anti-desertification treaty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertificat…

Nigeria: Seven Key Issues to Shape Conversations As Unccd COP17 Kicks Off in Mongolia

Delegates from 196 countries and the European Union have gathered in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, for UNCCD COP17, with drought resilience, land restoration, rangeland protection and the multibillion-dollar financing gap expected to dominate negotiations.

Seven key issues to shape conversations as UNCCD COP17 kicks off in Mongolia

Delegates from 196 countries and the European Union have gathered in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, for UNCCD COP17, with drought resilience, land restoration, rangeland protection and the multibillion-dollar financing gap expected to dominate negotiations. The post Seven key issues to shape conversations as UNCCD COP17 kicks off in Mongolia appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

BRIEFING: Private finance takes centre stage at UN summit in Mongolia amid push to scale land restoration

Efforts to close the multibillion-dollar financing gap on land restoration are gaining momentum at the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) summit underway in Mongolia, amid growing attention to private investment and market-based mechanisms.

Explainer: How China turns sand into green, takes its ecological playbook global

BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Fighting desertification -- a crisis affecting a third of the Earth's land surface and threatening a billion livelihoods -- has rarely...