The United Nations has warned of the growing threat of drought and dry weather and called for global action.
“Profound changes are needed given the increasing frequency and severity of drought events, the decline of water reserves and crop yields, the continued loss of biodiversity and the spread of famine,” Ibrahim Thiaw, head of the UN Convention on United Nations on the Desert (UNCCD). on the occasion of a new Convention report. Recent data has suggested an unprecedented emergency on a global scale.
For its analysis, the UNCCD compiled data from several organizations over the past few years. Among other things, the UN relies on information that an 80 percent increase in drought intensity is expected in China by 2100 and that five percent of the US has experienced severe to extreme drought by May 2023.
“Respect the limits of the planet”
“The less space the developed human world takes up, the more natural water cycles remain intact,” Thiaw said of possible containment measures. Furthermore, the slowdown in population growth is, among other things, a prerequisite “for social development that respects the planet’s borders”.