The UNCCD has made an official submission calling for a bold set of actions to be endorsed at the Rio+20 conference.
“We therefore stress that the time has come for the international community to commit itself to a land degradation neutral world by setting sustainable development goals on land use, with targets towards achieving zero-net land degradation.”
--Africa Consensus Statement to Rio+20”, Addis Ababa, 25 October 2011. See also the Chair’s Summary form the President of the 66th Session of the UN General Assembly.
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Executive Summary of the issues is presented in Land and soil in the context of a green economy for sustainable development, food security and poverty eradication.
Paragraphs 92 and 93 of the zero-draft document, The Future We Want, under consideration for the Rio+20 Conference is dedicated solely to the future we want on land degradation.