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EAD's aim to monitor and mitigate soil degradation is part of wider global efforts to combat desertification and achieve Land Degradation Neutrality, set by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The UAE has been a member of the UNCCD since 1998. ABU DHABI, 16th August, 2021 (WAM) -- The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) announced that it has completed a…

Every year, about one third of all food produced—about 1.3 billion tonnes—is wasted while 1 billion people remain undernourished and another 1 billion go to bed hungry. Households consume 29% of global energy contributing to 21% of carbon dioxide emissions (UNEP, 2020), pointing to the significant linkage between sustainable consumption and production (SCP) and the climate change challenge of…

Climate-related and geophysical events resulted in the loss of 312,000 lives and directly affected more than 277 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean, a new report released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) revealed on Tuesday. Extreme weather and climate change are threatening the entire region, “from the heights of Andean peaks to low-lying islands and…

Scientists for Climate – Croatia sent their appeal for climate action once more to the state leadership, following a dramatic report from the International Climate Change Panel. The group believes that a state of emergency needs to be introduced in the country and warns of desertification risk, sea level rise, droughts, floods and fires. Referring to the first part of a comprehensive…

Three villages had to be evacuated due to the blaze, which is the largest to hit the Castilla y León region since 1984. A wildfire continued to burn across the Spanish province of Ávila in the northwestern region of Castilla y León on Wednesday, although it was coming under control. The blaze began on Saturday and was sparked after a car was set alight following an accident on the N-502 highway…

Miguel Wickham analyses the IPCC climate experts' report, which warns of serious consequences for habitability if temperatures continue to rise as a result of human action. The sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released, warns of the alarming consequences of increased global warming in the current century. Climate scientists assume…