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The new UNCCD reporting process has been launched. To accommodate the highly technical nature of the new reporting process and enhance national capacity to generate, analyze, interpret and use Earth observation data, UNCCD has developed a series of online tutorials on how to use the available…

Trends.Earth (formerly the Land Degradation Monitoring Toolbox) is a platform for monitoring land change using earth observations in an innovative desktop and cloud-based system. The three sub-indicators for monitoring achievement of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN, Sustainable Development Goal…

Sand and Dust Storms (SDS) are extreme meteorological phenomena that generate significant amounts of airborne mineral dust particles. SDS play a significant role in different aspects of weather, climate and atmospheric chemistry and represent a serious hazard for life, health, property, environment…

Twenty-four million new jobs will be created globally by 2030 if the right policies to promote a greener economy are put in place, a new report by the International Labor Organization (ILO) says. Action to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement, to limit global temperature rise to below 2…

Drought is a complex and recurring natural disaster that occurs throughout the world and often has negative impacts on many sectors of society. Drought monitoring is challenging given the complex spatio-temporal dimensions of drought and its severity. Traditionally, drought monitoring has relied…

When people are forced to leave their homes, they usually also leave behind their means of economic activity. In their new location, they may not be able, or permitted, to work. This has wide-ranging implications. This issue includes 22 articles on the main feature theme of Economies: rights and…

Water resource management needs to be improved to meet the growing demand for drinking water and for water used in the agricultural and energy sectors.

“Every second, one person is displaced by disaster,” the Oslo-based Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) reports. “In 2015 only, more than 19.2 million people fled disasters in 113 countries. “Disasters displace three to ten times more people than conflict and war worldwide.”

The marginalization of arid rangelands is avoidable, but requires real changes in the current general political and economic rationale under which resources are allocated

This paper identifies new ways of moving from land degradation towards sustainable land management through the development of economic mechanisms.

The 2016 Adaptation Finance Gap Report explores the costs of meeting adaptation needs and assesses the funding that is available for meeting those needs.

Land and soil are limited natural resources essential to all human life. One of the major environmental challenges facing Europe is an increasing demand for development, which threatens these ecosystem services, such as water recycling and purification, carbon storage, and food and fuel — as well as…

The work of the Temporary Working Group (TWG) on Refugees and Migration involves building on existing good practices, learning lessons from failure and seeking options to use ODA more effectively. The TWG will undertake an evidence-based review of policy coherence issues, financing instruments and…

VITRI together with the United Nations Convention to combat Desertification United Nations (UNCCD) have published articles on Drought and Dryland Management in a special issue of the Journal Silva Fennica. The articles address the issue of ‘Drought and Dryland Management’ from the view point of…

Extreme and unusual trends continue in 2017. The year 2016 made history, with a record global temperature, exceptionally low sea ice, and unabated sea level rise and ocean heat, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Extreme weather and climate conditions have continued into 2017.…

This special issue looks at the ruptures, oppositions and insecurities in Western/Northern perspectives on human mobility with the overall goal to explain how the West's claim to be a norm entrepreneur for rule of law, freedom and prosperity relates to a growing rejection of an ‘other’ who is asking…

Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 4:29 - Get used to hearing the terms "Climate Migrant" or "Environmental Migrant" as each have become increasingly common across news headlines. We constantly hear or read about entire populations having to move from the places they inhabited all their lives to other locations…

A new map was released today detailing croplands worldwide in the highest resolution yet, helping to ensure global food and water security in a sustainable way.

A November 2017 report from Eurostat is the first monitoring exercise under the EU's mandate to monitor progress towards the SDGs in an EU context. A set of 100 indicators was developed to monitor the SDGs in the context of EU policies, and does not cover all aspects of the SDGs.

Part of the project “Enabling the use of global data sources to assess and monitor land degradation at multiple scales”

The 20th biennial Australian Rangeland Society (ARS2019) conference will be held in Canberra 2-5 September 2019 at the Kambri Convention Centre. The conference will bring together managers, researchers and policy makers to promote resilient rangeland environments and communities in times of change.…

Much of the confusion about the definition of reference conditions for land health and degradation assessments is due to differences in policy and management objectives. Selection of a historic reference where it is not necessary, such as in the definition of future land degradation neutrality, can…

Drought is a complex and recurring natural disaster that occurs throughout the world and often has negative impacts on many sectors of society. Drought monitoring is challenging given the complex spatio-temporal dimensions of drought and its severity. Traditionally, drought monitoring has relied…