On Tuesday 18 December, the European Court of Auditors published a report criticising the lack of coherence of the strategy to combat desertification at the European level.
“The European Commission has no clear vision of the challenges posed by the growing threats to the EU from desertification and land degradation,” the auditors said.
Desertification is both a consequence and a cause of climate change: land degradation leads to greenhouse gas emissions, and degraded soil has a...