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Tuesday, 9 November 2021, 12.30pm Cinema Auditorium, Glasgow Science Centre Join Hogan Lovells & the Great Green Wall Frontline team on a music-driven journey across Africa's Great Green Wall. Followed by a panel discussion on how you can become involved in this wildly ambitious movement, featuring Malian musician and climate activist, Inna Modja The…

From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed confidence that Africa’s ambition of restoring over 100 million hectares of degraded landscape for productive agriculture is achievable. The president expressed optimism in Glasgow, Scotland at the Climate Change Summit, COP26, a side event on the Great Green Wall (GGW), co-hosted by French…

Land pledge Meanwhile, Amazon’s Bezos is set to pledge £732 million for land restoration in Africa. At an event at COP 26 in Glasgow alongside the Prince of Wales, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the billionaire said he would match a previous donation made through his Bezos Earth Fund. The fund has pledged 10 billion…

•Prince Charles played a key role in getting Jeff Bezos to pledge £732million •Amazon founder is matching a past contribution for land restoration in Africa •The Great Green Wall initiative will plant 20m trees across the width of Africa •Prince was 'instrumental' in bringing Mr Bezos and Emmanuel Macron together Mr Bezos said: 'We all know that this is the decisive…

African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) President Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina has highlighted the importance of stopping desertification in Africa’s Sahel and turning the region green. Adesina spoke at a high-level side event held on Monday 1 November, on the Great Green Wall initiative during the ongoing UN global climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland. The event was co-hosted…

Europe's landscape is under threat as the climate crisis worsens, with desertification sweeping across the driest and hottest parts of Russia. In the southern republic of Kalmykia, sand has replaced the steppe. Severe drought and overgrazing have combined to destroy what was once fertile landscape. The worsening climate crisis has only been exacerbated as…