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RIYADH — The National Center for Vegetation Development and Combating Desertification has planted more than 12 million wild trees and shrubs to combat desertification in Saudi Arabia. The center said it planted the trees while starting the Integrated Management and Sustainable Development of Pastures Project, which is part of the National Pasture Strategy Initiative — one of the…

Speakers at an international conference underscore the need to regulate unchecked quarrying and mining in State Experts attending an international conference on landslips risk reduction organised by the Institute of Land and Disaster Management (ILDM) here have called for sustainable land use practices and active measures involving public participation for preventing the occurrence…

Once-unthinkable water crises are becoming commonplace. Reservoirs in Chennai, India’s sixth-largest city, were nearly dry in 2019. One year prior, residents of Cape Town, South Africa narrowly avoided their own “Day Zero” water shut-off. And in 2017, Rome rationed water to conserve scarce resources. The reasons for these crises go far deeper than drought: Through new…

The Sub-Saharan Cotton Initiative (SSCI) has emerged from an ideas competition organised by the Global Programme “Sustainability and Value Added in Agricultural Supply Chains” run by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and aims to mobilise the private sector for transformation projects and make cotton supply chains more sustainable. Its first annual meeting was held…

Tackling inflation while supporting growth and protecting the vulnerable warrants careful and vigilant monetary policy tightening. Sub-Saharan Africa faces one of the most challenging economic environments in years, marked by a slow recovery from the pandemic, rising food and energy prices, and high levels of public debt. One of the most urgent issues confronting the region is the need to tackle…

Many wealthy nations have developed a throwaway culture where everything from fast-fashion clothing to household white goods are disposed of. UN-Habitat says 99% of the items we purchase are thrown away within six months. It all adds up to 2 billion tonnes of waste produced globally each year, according to the World Bank. The chart above shows how a 'circular economy'…