1.4 billion people in the 🌍 still don't have access to formal banking and financial services.
Financial innovations and last-mile financing can help tackle land degradation and #drought, fostering inclusion and resilience #UNited4Land
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@NJHagens@OliviaLazard That was awesome!! Many many thanks for bringing in a “global south” angle also in previous podcasts! Much appreciated and much food for thought
Is the digital age dawning for the #GreatGreenWall? Project launched by UNCCD @FAO@globhedrones@OpenForis uses satellite data to recognize individual baobabs and plot them on a map.
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Major boost to conservation and restoration in the Sahel #UNited4Land#SEPAL
#Amazon heat drives #Tibet temperatures: #climate#tippingelements connected half around the globe, finds a new study. It applies the theory of complex networks to these elements and finds surprising – and worrying – long-distance linkages.
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As a miner for 40 years I have worked in various mines around the world. Gold, platinum, copper, coal, lead, zinc, oil and salt. I'm going to tell you something, and here it is. We will destroy the earth in the name of "Green Energy" Follow along and I will explain. 🧵
Fertilizer prices are out of reach for most farmers in developing countries. Greater production in advanced economies, efficiency gains & improved distribution networks are needed.
Read @DavidMalpassWBG blog: https://t.co/aq9TBhZcD4
Zero budget natural farming in Andhra Pradesh, India is helping soils to produce more, offering smallholder farmers decent livelihoods.
Local communities, particularly women’s self-help groups take up this farming practices that transform their land.
#UNited4Land
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Trillion Trees: Sahel and Great Green Wall Challenge!
Each of these innovators are helping to deliver benefits to both the people and the environment of the Sahel.
Learn more: https://t.co/RsnLCaGQ99
#TrillionTrees
@MWoroszylo Vlait net bei Dir Doheem ob der Terrasse? Mais be my guest come and join me to the villages in Northern Côte d’Ivoire where people are suffocating from the heat. Come and join me in Afghanistan where drought is destroying crops - heck let’s even go to Spain and have a look
#WEO2022 is out! Have a good look at these fossil fuel supply changes that would be required for net zero across *all* regions & pair that with clean energy investments remaining stagnant since 2015 in most developing countries (source WEO 2022).
For Khabibullo Nazarov, who cultivates grapes for export, it’s critical to know agrometeorological data to take timely actions. Otherwise, he takes big risks.
👇Find out how we help farmers grow their crops more effectively.
Watch full video: https://t.co/mqBgXst3IU
@JapanGov
@ElaMi5@fp2p Makes me smile “Many economists believe in the fiction that they are practising ‘science’, while many also believe in the fiction that progress in ‘science’ (and thus technology) is the solution to virtually all economic problems.”
Our latest report, commissioned by the @wef’s @1t_org initiative, explores the untapped opportunities from tree crop value chains in the Sahel’s Great #GreenWall – one of the most ambitious land restoration projects in the world. @SOS_SAHEL_
Read here https://t.co/5veKOsvF6J
Je me réjouis de l’adhésion et du soutien de nos partenaires techniques et financiers, qui ont décidé de contribuer financièrement à l’Initiative d’Abidjan à hauteur de 2,3 milliards de dollars américains, bien au-delà des 1,5 milliards attendus. #COP15Abidjan
Je porte personnellement «l’initiative d’Abidjan », avec l’espoir qu’elle inspirera d'autres pays, en #Afrique et dans le reste du monde. #COP15Abidjan.