World Desertification and Drought Day 2025
This year’s World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought focuses on one of the most pressing global challenges: restoring 1.5 billion hectares of degraded land and building a $1 trillion land restoration economy by 2030.
With the theme “Restoring Land. Unlocking Opportunities,” the 2025 celebration highlights how land restoration can create jobs, increase food and water security, support climate action, and build economic resilience.
More than half of global GDP depends on healthy ecosystems. Yet every year, an area the size of Egypt degrades, causing biodiversity loss, increasing drought risk, and displacing entire communities. The ripple effects are global, from rising food prices to instability and migration.
But land restoration turns the tables. Every dollar invested in restoration generates an economic return of $7 to $30. Revitalizing land restores productivity, strengthens water cycles, and supports millions of rural livelihoods.
- https://www.isprambiente.gov.it/en/news/world-desertification-and-drought-day-2025
- World Desertification and Drought Day 2025
- 2025-06-17T00:00:00+02:00
- 2025-06-17T23:59:59+02:00
- This year’s World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought focuses on one of the most pressing global challenges: restoring 1.5 billion hectares of degraded land and building a $1 trillion land restoration economy by 2030. With the theme “Restoring Land. Unlocking Opportunities,” the 2025 celebration highlights how land restoration can create jobs, increase food and water security, support climate action, and build economic resilience. More than half of global GDP depends on healthy ecosystems. Yet every year, an area the size of Egypt degrades, causing biodiversity loss, increasing drought risk, and displacing entire communities. The ripple effects are global, from rising food prices to instability and migration. But land restoration turns the tables. Every dollar invested in restoration generates an economic return of $7 to $30. Revitalizing land restores productivity, strengthens water cycles, and supports millions of rural livelihoods.
- When Jun 17, 2025 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
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ISPRA is a partner of the MONALISA Project - MONitoring and Assessing prevention and restoration soLutIons to combat deSertificAtion which will provide innovative solutions to combat soil degradation and desertification in arid areas of Europe and the Mediterranean, thanks to a transdisciplinary approach and advanced technologies, such as remote sensing and artificial intelligence.
The final objective of MONALISA is to foster new business opportunities and stimulate public and private investments in sustainable solutions, thus contributing to the economic growth and environmental sustainability of European and Mediterranean arid areas.
ISPRA will take care in particular of the preparation of a framework for desertification risk assessment and monitoring at European scale and for the Mediterranean area, as part of the set of actions to test effective solutions to prevent and reverse land degradation and desertification, highlighting the socio-economic and environmental benefits of the proposed actions