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The Great Green Wall: Implementation Status and Way Ahead to 2030 launched 7 September 2020. It evaluates the implementation of a most ambitious project along the southern tip of the Saharan desert in Africa.The report , which was presented at a virtual meeting of the ministers of environment of the participating countries, takes stock of the progress…

Global strategies to halt the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change are often formulated separately, even though they are interdependent and risk failure if pursued in isolation. The Global Safety Net maps how expanded nature conservation addresses both overarching threats. We identify 50% of the terrestrial realm that, if conserved, would reverse further biodiversity loss, prevent…

Biodiversity research is replete with scientific studies depicting future trajectories of decline that have failed to mobilize transformative change. Imagination and creativity can foster new ways to address longstanding problems to create better futures for people and the planet. The world has changed. Posited to be a ‘super year’ for biodiversity with various international meetings…

Scientific discoveries, national regulations, and international agreements impact our lives. If we bring all three together in a solid but flexible governance structure, then we are able to address those impacts and share more evenly their consequences across different nations. This is what the Montreal Protocol has done in its 30 years of life and will continue to do thanks to the recent Kigali…

The Great Green Wall is a pan-African initiative to restore and sustainably manage land in the Sahel- Saharan region in order to address both land degradation and poverty. It was first envisioned in 2005 The African Union (AU) launched the initiative in 2007 under the name the Great Green Wall. On 17 June 2010 the 11 Sahel states south of the Sahara created the Pan-African Agency of…

The intergovernmental working group on drought which is one of the subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (“UNCCD” or “Convention”) is currently discussing options on how the UNCCD can address drought within the framework of the Convention. The UNCCD Secretariat has sought the advice of the UNEP Law Division on legal and other institutional options that the working group may wish to consider in the light of the practices of Multilateral Environment Agreements (MEAs) and the experiences of UNEP