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The UNCCD COP16 was the last of 2024’s three Rio Convention COPs. Here’s what happened in Riyadh – and where it leaves us now.
In 2024, we attended the three Rio Convention COPs: the Biodiversity COP16, Climate COP29 and UNCCD COP16. Here’s what we learned.
Land offers us some of our most basic needs, including food, water and shelter. At UNCCD COP16, we asked participants what it means to them.
Saudi Arabia is building an eco-city in the desert. What difference will The Line and Neom make to the country’s sky-high carbon emissions?
Desertification is affecting half a billion people around the world. But what is it, and what can we do about it? Find out in this explainer.
GLF Live with Nancy Barisoa, Beatriz Azevedo and Billie Dumaliang
Notes from the floor of the UNCCD COP15, 2022's largest event on land degradation.
A Q&A with UNCCD’s Louise Baker on major new report on landscapes and how communities can reverse land degradation.
GLF Live with Andrea Meza Murillo
GLF Live with Fiona Flintan, Patrick Augenstein and Ken Otieno
Funds for the Sahel's Great Green Wall barrier against desertification renew hope that it will be completed by its 2030 goal.
New report says more funding is needed to complete the African initiative to restore 100 million hectares of degraded landscapes.
Part three of a Landscape News series on the Great Green Wall focuses on the future of the restoration initiative that could change the landscape of Africa.
Tony Rinaudo’s uses what lies beneath to turn drylands into forests
Burkinabe farmer and Right Livelihood winner Yacouba Sawadogo
