UN Launches Decade-Long Efforts to Tackle Desertification
August 16, 2010
August 16, 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 16 -- The United Nations Environmental Programme issued the following news release:
The United Nations is launching the Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification (2010-2020) today, an 11-year long effort to raise awareness and action to improve the protection and management of the world's drylands, home to a third of the world's population and which face serious economic and environmental threats.
"Continued land d . . .
The United Nations is launching the Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification (2010-2020) today, an 11-year long effort to raise awareness and action to improve the protection and management of the world's drylands, home to a third of the world's population and which face serious economic and environmental threats.
"Continued land d . . .