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COVID-19 is a defining moment for strengthening drought resilience of society and managing ecosystems more sustainably. Both recent and historical experiences indicate that disease outbreaks very often follow extreme weather events. Drought, combined with other ecosystem changes such as habitat degradation, preceded the COVID-19 outbreak and has been associated with many other types of epidemics…

Version 2 of the Good Practice Guidance for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 15.3.1 informs the work of Parties, particularly on monitoring and understanding the status of land cover, land productivity and soil organic carbon stocks using Earth observation data. These are the three major variables used to measure SDG indicator 15.3.1 - Proportion of land that is degraded over total…

The new Good Practice Guidance for national reporting on UNCCD strategic objective 3 supports Parties to report on the hazard posed by drought, the population exposed to drought and the vulnerability of those exposed to harm. These are the three fundamental components of drought risk, and each is represented by an indicator in the monitoring framework adopted by Parties in decision 11.COP.14.

The sectoral guide has five sections. Section 1 provides an overview of the sector within the global context of climate action. Section 2 highlights key paradigm pathways in the urban sector, as well as the GCF drivers to realise these pathways. Section 3 describes financing trends and models to scale up and catalyse public and private investment, including…

Agriculture is central to food security1, livelihoods, and economic development, across the world but more importantly in developing countries. Agriculture is largely characterized by rural production systems and support livelihoods for 86% of the world’s rural population. It is also a key sector for climate change adaptation and mitigation. Many of the world’s 500 million small-scale producers…

Agriculture is the largest single source of environmental degradation, responsible for over 30% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, 70% of freshwater use and 80% of land conversion: it is the single largest driver of biodiversity loss (Foley et al. 2011, 2005; IPBES 2019; Willett et al. 2019). Agriculture also underpins poor human health, contributing to 11 million premature…