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These areas play an important role in protecting the environment and conserving the soil from erosion by water and wind, which is reflected in the impact reduction of desertification factors.
Although, water erosion index have less impact on the hazard of desertification (7 land units).
Using the Hunshandake Sandy Land of eastern Inner Mongolia, a former dormant dunes and wetlands environment, we monitored the variation of the desertified land and the wetlands in order to assess the climatic and human impacts on the processes of desertification.
Another example of desertification's impact was the loss of land bordering the Gobi desert leading to record dust storms that damage the health of people in Seoul in South Korea, thousands of kilometres away.
Climate risk is very much ESG risk because of all the potential impact from it -- from the migration of displaced people as a result of changing climate, to the broad impact of water scarcity and desertification, all currently being highlighted by the United Nations.
Action Against Desertification is an initiative of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) to restore drylands and degraded lands in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific to tackle the detrimental social, economic and environmental impact of land degradation and desertification.
The project builds on the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative, in which more than 20 African countries, international organizations, research institutes, civil society and grassroots organizations have come together to tackle the detrimental social, economic and environmental impact of land degradation and desertification.
Endorsed in 2007 by African Heads of State and Government, the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (Project GCP/INT/120/EC) aims to tackle the detrimental social, economic and environmental impact of land degradation and desertification in the Sahelo-Saharan region.
These conditions are also exacerbated by the growing impact of climate change, such as desertification and falling crop yields that make water more scarce and fuel further social unrest.
