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Extreme weather events like storms, heatwaves and flooding accounted for economic losses of around half a trillion euros over the past 40 years and led to between 85 000 and 145 000 human fatalities across Europe. Less than one-third of these losses were insured, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) analysis of economic losses and fatalities from weather and climate-related events,…

In the context of the latest findings from the IPCC and the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, the role of investment in NbS “is clear: it tackles these interlinked crises,” the report finds. An additional USD 165 billion per year from G20 countries for nature-based solutions is needed to meet currently agreed global targets by 2050. Nature-based solutions include: improving…

Invasive alien species are expected to contribute to significant numbers of global extinctions in the coming decades. This study assesses vulnerable bird and mammal species according to their contribution to global biological diversity and considers the consequences of projected species loss. The researchers conclude that declines in diversity and shifts in global species composition resulting…

ABIDJAN, Jan 31 (Reuters) - There has been no rain for a second straight week in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa growing regions, farmers said on Monday, warning that could reduce the quality of beans for the last stage of the main crop and shrink the April-to-September mid-crop. Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is in its November-to-March dry season, when downpours are…

The 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (COP15) will be held from 9 to 20 May 2022 in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast. Some 5,000 participants from 197 countries will work on the theme of "Restoration of drylands and degraded forests for a future agriculture". This is what emerged from the press conference held on January 24, 2022…

Tanzania digs in to fight drought Grass seeds, shovels, muscle and rain — the perfect ingredients to bring parched land in Kenya and Tanzania back to life. Village communities in Kenya and Tanzania are using a surprisingly simple, low-tech method to fight desertification. They dig semicircular depressions into the earth, so that it when it rains, water collects instead of evaporating…