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The study on Differentiated Impacts of Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought on Women and Men has revealed that women are twice more affected by these issues, and that drought and land degradation tend to increase the burden of unpaid care and domestic work shouldered by women and girls. The study titled “Differentiated Impacts of Desertification, Land Degradation and…

The Sustainable Development Report 2022 marks the seventh edition of the annual assessment of progress of all UN Member States towards the Sustainable Development Goals. This year's report discusses the critical need and channels of development finance for low-income and lower-middle income countries. The Sustainable Development Report 2022 features the SDG Index and Dashboards, the…

The Global Mechanism (GM) has the mandate to facilitate the mobilization of financial resources to implement the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). To do this, the GM provides advisory services to countries that request guidance and works together with developing countries, private sector investors and donors to mobilize substantial resources at the national, regional…

Land degradation in Southern Africa has been driven by multiple natural and human-induced processes including soil erosion, unsustainable agricultural practices, tree harvesting for charcoal production, contamination, pollution and biodiversity loss. The effects have negatively impacted the livelihoods of a significant proportion of the region’s population that relies on subsistence…

This paper deals primarily with the third dimension, i.e. options for the financing of land technology transfer. Since most environmental technology development as measured by patenting activity is concentrated in industrialized countries – yet with some middle-income economies such as China and Saudi Arabia also becoming major innovators in land-based technologies – this paper…

Technology transfer, as defined by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), constitutes “...a broad set of processes covering the flows of know-how, experience and equipment for mitigating and adapting to climate change amongst different stakeholders such as governments, private sector entities, financial institutions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and research/education institutions...”2…