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BEIJING, August 1 (China Youth Daily) “Young people play a critical role, and there is huge potential,” Andrea Meza Murillo, Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), said to China Youth Daily. She highlighted the role the youth play in land governance and combating climate change. Andrea calls herself a “steward of the land.” In…

Amid the education crisis exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations is partnering with leading children’s charity Theirworld and others in the sector, to launch the #LetMeLearn campaign, urging world leaders to listen to the voices of young people and put in place the plans and finance required to provide a quality education for every child. “Across the globe,…

By Anna Abraham Pastoral communities in East Africa have been hit hardest by a historic drought. It’s 8 in the morning, when a group of Maasai pastoral women in Kajiado County, Kenya, begin their long journey to the Ewaso Nyiro river in the Rift Valley, which has been contaminated by horticultural activities upstream. It will take them 7 hours to return. They used to…

Much has been done by countless people, organizations, businesses and leaders to stave off the effects of climate change. Over decades, concerned individuals have changed their diets, switched to renewable energy, taken organized action and invested money in a desperate bid to save future generations from the hardships of living in a world heated beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius. But these…

In what is a comparatively short time on the planet, humans have had a profound effect on global ecosystems. With our farms, cities and way of life, we've transformed vast swaths of Earth — croplands, grasslands, forests and wetlands — from their natural state, in many cases leaving them worse for wear. As a new U.N. report points out, between 20 to 40 per cent of the world's total land area has…

Despite substantial success in establishing National Drought Policies, drought impacts continue to increase around the globe. This session will review progress since the High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP) held in 2013 and discuss o the way forward to scaling up and accelerating implementation of Integrated Drought Management. In March 2013, a High-Level Meeting on…