
Africa’s Great Green Wall: a bursting dream?
A giant vegetation barrier to stop desertification: The Great Green Wall is the world’s most ambitious project to fight the impact of climate change. Why it is struggling to reach its potential.
Climate change is the defining issue of our time. Many have identified the consequences of global warming as the gravest threat that countries, the international community and planet Earth face over the course of this century. Global warming, i.e. the rise in global average temperatures, is caused by greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere – such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) – produced by a number of human activities: deforestation, the burning of fossil fuels like oil and coal, and intensive farming. The consequences of this process are known as climate change. Due to the ongoing climate crisis we’re witnessing the melting of ice sheets and glaciers, sea levels rising, desertification and biodiversity loss. In order to face all these challenges, over 170 countries adopted the Paris Agreement at the COP21 climate change conference held in the French capital in 2015. Follow the latest updates, information and news about international efforts to slow down global warming and its devastating effects.
A giant vegetation barrier to stop desertification: The Great Green Wall is the world’s most ambitious project to fight the impact of climate change. Why it is struggling to reach its potential.
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With Joe Biden as US president, the entire international community will be aligned on the climate crisis. We can’t let this chance slip away.