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Press Release – UN News An area of land roughly the size of China needs restoring if the planets biodiversity and the communities who rely on it are to be protected, UN agencies said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) and UN Environment Programmes ( …
An area of land roughly the size of China needs restoring if the planet’s biodiversity and the communities who rely on it are to be protected, UN agencies said on Thursday.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) call to reinstate at least one billion degraded hectares of land by 2030 must also be matched by a similar commitment to the oceans, or else risk a growing threat to global food security, they added.
Friday, 4 June 2021, 6:19 am
An area of land roughly the size of China needs
restoring if the planet’s biodiversity and the communities
who rely on it are to be protected, UN agencies said on
Thursday.
The Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO)
and UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP)
call to reinstate at least one billion degraded hectares of
land by 2030 must also be matched by a similar commitment to
the oceans, or else risk a growing threat to global food
security, they added.
In a new report
marking the start of a Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, the
agencies warned that humans are already using 1.6
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New York: An innovative artificial intelligence (AI) tool that will make it easier for countries to measure the contributions of nature to their economic prosperity and well‑being was launched today by the United Nations and the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3).
Developed by the Statistics Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and BC3, the new tool can vastly accelerate implementation of the new ground-breaking standard for valuing the contributions of nature that was adopted by the UN Statistical Commission last month.
The tool makes use of AI technology using the Artificial Intelligence for Environment and Sustainability (ARIES) platform to support countries as they apply the new international standard for natural capital accounting, the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) Ecosystem Accounting.
Great Green Wall promises better lives to African farmers
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hit by climate crisis
AFRICA’S Great Green Wall, a climate crisis initiative that offers hope for some of the continent’s most beleaguered farmers, is back on a steady trajectory after securing US$14 billion in new funding for the next decade.
By Richard Wetaya
Once complete, it will reportedly be the largest living structure on the planet, covering an area 8,000 km long by 17 km wide – three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef – and stretching across the entire continent.
With the fresh infusion of funds – obtained at the Paris-One Planet Summit for Biodiversity – it is anticipated that hard-pressed pastoral and agricultural communities long challenged by poverty and persistent food insecurity in the Sahel and Horn of Africa regions will enjoy better lives.