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A host of charities have joined forces with UK farmers to urge businesses and policymakers to tackle the nature and climate crises, warning that without a nature-positive mindset, “you can’t be profit positive”. Charities including the WWF, RSPB and the National Trust are partnering with a host of farmers and a selection of business leaders to raise awareness of the need to improve nature…

The European Union is one of the largest importers of commodities linked to deforestation, with more than 60% of the world’s cocoa and about 50% of its coffee going to Europe alone in 2016. Cocoa and coffee are two of seven agricultural commodities that resulted in over a quarter of global tree cover loss from 2001 to 2015. A draft regulation can help prevent products that cause…

The global food system is failing to deliver sufficient and nutritious food to all, while damaging the earth and unsustainably drawing down its resources. We argue that trees and forests are essential to solving these challenges. We outline the current contributions of trees and forests to the global food system and present recommendations to leverage these contributions as part of the efforts to…

Geneva, 17 May 2023 (WMO) – Global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels in the next five years, fuelled by heat-trapping greenhouse gases and a naturally occurring El Niño event, according to a new update issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). There is a 66% likelihood that the annual average near-surface global temperature between 2023 and 2027 will be…

Water scarcity is the “main agenda” that must be tackled in the Middle East and North Africa, or MENA, according to the World Bank’s vice president for the region, to avoid increasing political instability and conflict.Ferid Belhaj’s remarks Monday came after a World Bank report branded the issue “existential” and found water systems in the MENA region are being stretched “to the brink of…

De plus en plus de régions du monde sont confrontées à la sécheresse, ce qui accélère la perte des sols fertiles au niveau global. Des solutions existent, d’après le secrétaire général de la Convention des Nations unies sur la lutte contre la désertification. Italie, Espagne, Sud de la France, Californie… De plus en plus de régions du monde sont aujourd’hui confrontées à la sécheresse, en…