Desertification: UN Scribe Urges Urgent Action - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 17, 2019
TheUN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for  an urgent action to protect and restore theworld’s degrading land in a bid to reduce forced migration, improve foodsecurity and address the global climate change emergency.
Guterresmade the call in his message to the 2019 World Day to Combat Desertificationand the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention to CombatDesertification  on Monday in Ankara,Turkey.
TheUN scribe who noted that the world was losing 24 billion tons of fertile soil and dry land to degradation, added thatthis had reduced national domestic product in developing countries by up toeight per cent annually.
Guterresalso said that much remained to be done.
Accordingto the UN scribe, the imperative of combating desertification is part ofefforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Theinternational community adopted the Convention to Combat Desertification inParis on June 17, 1994 out of concerns that “desertification and drought areproblems of global dimension affecting all regions.