Rising sea levels, desertification and shrinking freshwater supplies will create up to 50 million environmental refugees by the end of the decade, experts warn today.
"Director Panetta believes it is crucial to examine the potential national security implications of phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels and population shifts," Paula Weiss, an agency spokeswoman, said.
Ban called a 27-page draft text already on the table "a good basis" for a deal to help avert more powerful storms, droughts, and desertification and rising sea levels.
When he returned to his village, he found desertification and rising food costs, which led him to launch NUTRIMAX, a moringa-based food supplement for malnourished children between 3 and 12 years old.
The two-week meeting also created a Warsaw International Mechanism to help the poor cope with loss and damage from heatwaves, droughts, floods, desertification and rising sea levels - although rich nations refused to pledge new cash.
He makes the link because climate change increases desertification, rises sea levels and indirectly causes water and food scarcity.
The ever-increasing poverty, unemployment, desertification, water scarcity, rising food prices, civil wars, sectarian and ethnic conflicts make the task daunting.
International case studies are used to highlight the role archaeology is beginning to play in providing new insights into the processes of environmental trauma and degradation, sudden climate change, habitat and species loss, sea level rise, encroaching desertification and inundation of coastal and river habitats.
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The reality of climate change has been borne out by so many catastrophes in recent decades – destructive hurricanes, floods, desertification, melting ice caps, rising sea levels – that it is no longer possible to ignore the impact on human populations.
