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Desertification
Over 12 million hectares of productive land are lost to desertification every year; the equivalent of losing an area the size of South Africa every decade. The United Nations is taking action to protect productive lands in dry regions around the world. These lands--home to two billion people--are under increasing threat due to poor land management practices and climate change. The result is poverty, drought, famine, and demographic pressures.
Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Images of all 175 world leaders as they signed the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Adopted in Paris at the COP21 conference last December, the Agreements objective is to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, and to strive for 1.5 degrees Celsius. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon believes the next critical step is to ensure the landmark accord enters into force as soon as possible.
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