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Reducing systemic inequalities, mitigating and adapting to climate change, and conserving biodiversity through nature conservation, sustainable land management and restoration by Emily Robertson, Moritz Hauer, Frederike Klümper | 13 July 2023 Land is at the interface and at the center of all three Rio Conventions. It must be managed sustainably if we want to mitigate and adapt…

Latest research shows around 735 million people currently facing hunger, compared to 613 million in 2019. ROME/NEW YORK/GENEVA – Over 122 million more people are facing hunger in the world since 2019 due to the pandemic and repeated weather shocks and conflicts, including the war in Ukraine, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report…

One in nine people (or up to 783 million people) globally experienced hunger in 2022. Further, almost one in three people (or 2.4 billion people) in the world do not have constant access to food. Data and statistics from the recently launched State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 (SOFI 2023) report reveal a world still in crisis. While…

Experiencing a sand or dust storm can be frightening. As rolling clouds engulf everything in their path, the tempests turn day into night and wreak havoc on humans and nature. The most ferocious are like tsunamis of sand. These storms affect some 330 million people around the world, from Sub-Saharan Africa to Northern China to Australia. That tally is poised to rise.

More than 61,000 people died as a result of searing heat across Europe in the summer of 2022, according to a new study. The summer of 2022 was Europe’s hottest on record and was characterised by a series of record-breaking heatwaves. New research published in Nature Medicine explores the link between temperature and human mortality to assess heat-related deaths across…

Since 2015, global poverty reduction was already slowing down and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic reversed three decades of steady progress with the number of people living in extreme poverty increasing for the first time in a generation. Recovery from the pandemic has been slow and uneven as the world is presently facing multiple geopolitical, socioeconomic, and climatic risks. Given…