Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Land degradation could displace 50 to 700 million people by 2050

Land decay is undermining the well-being of two-fifths of all the people on Earth, or around 3.2 billion people, according to an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) three-year assessment penned by 100 experts hailing from 45 countries. It's the first comprehensive land health assessment, according to Agence France Presse (AFP) — and assessment co-chair Robert Scholes of South Africa said land degradation is "pushing the planet towards a sixth...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/land-degradation-could-displace-50-to-700-million-people-by-2050
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