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A long-term vision of the Regional Strategy for Sand and Dust Storms Management in Central Asia for 2021–2030 is to reduce the vulnerability of Central Asian countries and communities to the effects of SDS by mitigating active sources and planning for proactive measures in destination areas. Recognizing the increased risk of droughts and sand and dust storms (SDS), Parties to the…

This publication is a product of the GEF-funded FAO project "Decision Support for Mainstreaming and Scaling Out Sustainable Land Management" which has developed a decision support framework (DSF). The DSF integrates experience from work with land degradation and SLM into an overall strategy for mainstreaming and scaling out SLM at different spatial and temporal scales. Such a strategy, put in…

What’s new in this year’s report The report finds that there has been progress since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015. Greenhouse gas emissions in 2030, based on policies in place, were projected to increase by 16 per cent at the time of the agreement’s adoption. Today, the projected increase is 3 per cent. However, predicted 2030 greenhouse gas emissions still must fall by 28…

This report is a contribution of the knowledge management component of the LAND-at-scale programme (LAS) which is funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and implemented by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland - RVO). LAND-at-scale is a seven-year programme (2019-2026), that aims to contribute to fair and just tenure security, access to land and…

Across the world, people are already using migration as a way of coping with climate change. Climate change is intensifying disasters like droughts, and individuals are relocating to protect their lives and livelihoods. Governments negotiating at COP must acknowledge this new reality. By making migration safer, we enable more people to use it as a means of building their climate…

The technical workshop focused largely on better understanding and assessing the phenomenon itself by breaking the topic down into four sub-topics: (1) considering climate variability and drought assessment; (2) understanding drought in an aridifying (drier-trending) climate; (3) discerning drought in a humidifying (wetter-trending) climate; and (4) defining drought in terms of risk and…