Episode 2, Season 3 | The Great Green Wall: How Data Can Advance One of Africa’s Most Ambitious Efforts to Combat Climate Change
In the second episode of a new series on climate and data, Vanessa Goas, former DGer Joshua Mbai, and special guest Gilles Amadou Ouédraogo, Programme Management Officer for the Great Green Wall (GGW) Accelerator at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), discuss the Great Green Wall Initiative, the Great Green Wall Observatory, and how the the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and DG are committed supporting new and ongoing efforts aimed at combating climate change.
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Special thanks to Mark Hatcher for our theme music. You can find Mark on social media at @markdhatcher.
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