The UN report comes as world leaders meet in Saudi Arabia for the agency's COP16 conference on land desertification.

The UAE concluded its participation in the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the United Nations ...

Saudi Arabia's COP16 Presidency has delivered the largest meeting of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification ...

The drying out and degradation of Earth's land is an "existential crisis" that could affect 5 billion people by the end of ...

Ibrahim Thiaw, executive secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), addresses the closing ...

For two weeks, the risks to food supply were at the heart of debates at the United Nations Convention to Combat ...

The 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification was held in Riyadh, Saudi ...

RIYADH, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) closed early Saturday, with 39 decisions, including a ...

The global economy could lose $23 trillion by 2050 due to land degradation, though halting this trend would cost $4.6 ...

The role of governance in local, regional and international efforts to tackle land degradation, drought and desertification, ...

In his opening remarks, Anthony Nyong, the African Development Bank’s Director of Climate Change and Green Growth, stressed ...