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“Integrated landscape management” requires understanding different land use impacts and balancing the often-conflicting interests of different groups. Let’s pretend you are the government of Country X in sub-…
The millions of tons of plastic swirling around the world’s oceans have garnered a lot of media attention recently. But plastic pollution arguably poses a bigger threat to the plants and animals – including humans…
Rapid development and expanding infrastructure are exerting increasing pressure on soil, leading to soil degradation. Extractive industries are often prone to industrial mismanagement, leading to pollution of wide…
By Francis Vorhies, Earthmind, and Arthur Eijs, Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management Scientists and policymakers agree that we need to step up efforts to conserve biodiversity. We need to move…
By Joop van Bodegraven, policy adviser on nature conservation for the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality The Netherlands is a densely populated country, with a high standard of living and…
It’s the beginning of the end for Ethiopia’s stores of DDT, an internationally restricted pesticide. The East African country is moving to eliminate once and for all the largest officially reported global stockpile…
Jordan’s 9.1 million people are facing serious environmental challenges. Land degradation due to over- exploitation of vegetation, and unsustainable agriculture and water management practices, have resulted in lack…
Healthy landscapes are fundamental to the health of life on earth. From food production to quality air and water, nutrient cycling and soil formation, we depend on our land for the very basics of existence. Land degradation and desertification,…
Good morning Excellencies, representatives from the German Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development, the European Commission, UNCCD, Esteemed Experts, Fellow Colleagues, ladies and gentlemen. We are…
The United Nations’ adoption of Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) with 169 targets, presents a monumental opportunity to the…
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