UNEP - Rainwater harvesting providing adaptation opportunities to climate change
Category: In the News - Published Articles
02 Jan 2009
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) provided a baseline on the state of our ecosystem services. The scenario for the future looks grim given the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment’s finding that 60% of the world's ecosystem services have degraded or are being used unsustainably. Many of the degraded ecosystem services were stated to be caused by increased agricultural outputs and expansion. An additional challenge is the 370 million people who were undernourished during the period 1997 to 1999. This figure increased to 852 million during the period 2000 to 2002. These marginalized groups are largely found in South East Asia and the Sub-Saharan Africa.
UNEP (The Group article starts on page 54 of the pdf with Guenter's section on page 60 of the pdf)
