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More than two billion hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded landscapes are likely to offer potential for restoration — a vast opportunity to reduce poverty, improve food security, reduce climate change, and conserve biodiversity. Over the last several centuries, vast forest areas have been cleared as agriculture has spread and human populations have grown. About 30…

COVID-19 & THE ENVIRONMENT Various articles have been published in the past weeks on the environmental causes and the environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This page aims at listing relevant information, research, data and/or press releases issued by our partners in Geneva and other institutions around the world.

Researchers found that air pollution has intensified the pandemic. But the lockdown and related measures implemented by countries to stop the spread of COVID-19 have also led to a decrease in economic activities and drop in road transport, temporarly cleaning skies and decreasing levels of certain air pollutants.

POST COVID-19 IMPACT & GREENING ECONOMIES Leaders and experts around the world are calling for a profound, systemic shift to a more sustainable economy that works for both people and the planet.

Today, there are 900 million hungry people worldwide and one billion people overfed. Under the current production and consumption trends, global food production will need to increase by 60 percent by 2050. The global economic cost of food wastage, based on 2009 producer prices, is USD750 billion, approximately the 2011 GDP of Turkey or Switzerland. The lost grain in sub…

Caroline King-Okumu is an expert in the integrated management of water and land in dryland ecosystems. She works on environmental assessment processes and researches the costs of groundwater degradation, as well as sustainable land management and methods of helping decision-makers to think ahead in a changing climate. Expertise Integrated management of water and land in dryland…