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This report serves as a contribution to inform and prepare the implementation of LDN in the EU. It was developed as part of the research project “Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals on Soils”1, carried out by Ecologic Institute on behalf of the German Environment Agency. Parts of this report have also been used in a background paper for a workshop with representatives from EU Member…

“In just over three decades from now, an estimated 4 billion people will live in drylands,” said Prof. Scholes. “By then it is likely that land degradation, together with the closely related problems of climate change, will have forced 50-700 million people to migrate. Decreasing land productivity also makes societies more vulnerable to social instability – particularly in dryland…

The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 is a visual guide to the trends, challenges and measurement issues related to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas features maps and data visualizations, primarily drawn from World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank’s compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development and the quality of people…

Conflict and disasters displaced 30.6 million people within their own countries last year, according to a new report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). “This is the equivalent of more than 80,000 people displaced each day,” said Alexandra Bilak, Director of IDMC. “The scale of this displacement is dishearteningly familiar…

Drought affects all sectors of society, from food production to public health, and there is a growing need to help communities, businesses and individuals threatened by drought to plan accordingly. At the Conference of the Parties (decision 29/COP.13), the UNCCD institutions and bodies have been requested to implement a drought initiative in the biennium 2018−2019. A key element of the initiative…

Concerted global and regional efforts to mitigate the effects of droughts and associated risks are vital. The unusually strong El Niño in 2015–2016, coupled with record-high temperatures, had a catastrophic impact on rainfall across southern and eastern Africa. It crippled countries from Ethiopia to Zimbabwe and affected as many as 36 million in the region. Namibia experienced its worst harvest…