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The Caspian Sea’s decline means a climate-led water crisis for at least five Asian nations as inland seas dry up. LONDON, 7 January, 2021 − The Caspian Sea − the world’s largest lake − is about to go down in the world. And with it could go the fortunes of some of the people of at least five nations. New research suggests that the Caspian Sea, already getting lower at the rate of several…

World leaders will attempt to revive international environmental talks on Monday during a global summit on biodiversity. The One Planet Summit’s organisers hope to restart international efforts to protect nature ahead of UN biodiversity talks this year which had to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. France is hosting the event in Paris alongside the United Nations and the…

In the past five years, the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) has mobilized leaders across 30 countries to fight climate change, rural poverty, and the erosion of the continent’s biodiversity. To achieve those goals, governments have committed to restore nearly 126 million hectares of land, an area the size of Egypt, by growing trees in forests and on farms,…

For some 40 years, ISRIC – World Soil Information has been providing significant support to the international science community by collecting and archiving regional-, national- and global-scale maps of soils and land resources. Despite effective procedures for storage and maintenance, most organizations involved in archiving struggle to arrest the deterioration of paper maps and the quality of…

QU Dongyu joined President Macron and The Prince of Wales at One Planet Summit. 11 January 2021, Paris/Rome - The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, QU Dongyu, today appealed for an urgent scale-up of Africa's Great Green Wall initiative to restore degraded land, create jobs and address climate change. The Director-General spoke in…

The process of recovery from the coronavirus pandemic offers the chance to change course, and put humanity on a path on which it is not in conflict with nature, the United Nations Secretary-General said on Monday, urging greater efforts by everyone to protect biodiversity and step up climate action. Addressing world leaders at the One Planet Summit, Secretary-General António…