Other meetings & events

Land degradation remains the greatest policy blind spot in domestic and global responses to water management. Join our Deputy Executive Secretary Andrea Meza for this UN Water Conference Nature Hub side event at 2 PM and explore how land restoration can unlock the power of nature for water security, drought resilience and ecosystem recovery: nature.org/naturehub 

The UN 2023 Water Conference will take place at UN Headquarters in New York, 22-24 March 2023, co-hosted by Tajikistan and the Netherlands. The conference will include an opening and closing session, six plenary sessions, and five interactive dialogues, as well as side events organized by participants. It will result in a summary of proceedings from the UNGA President that will feed into the 2023 session of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). You can join UNCCD at these conference events: Wednesday 22 March at 2PM: Nature Hub event "Restore land preserve water: Drought resilience and sustainable land management for people and planet." Register here. Thursday 23 March at 2PM: International Drought Resilience alliance side event "Transforming Water Scarcity into Prosperity Pathways" will be broadcast live on UN Web TV.  

ISSPA a biennial global symposium for scientists, public/private laboratories, government agencies, professionals and students to discuss scientific and technological advances in soil/plant analysis. Convening under the slogan "Analytics for a sustainable agriculture under climatic change, this will be a great opportunity to learn about the different study techniques and integration of indicators in degraded soils, tissue, organic matter, biostimulants and edaphic biodiversity which assess the quality and functionality of soils, as well as inform decisions on crop nutrition and adaptation measures to climate change. The International Governance Committee (IGC) has determined that Chile will host the 17th ISSPA in the spring of 2023: https://isspa2023.cl

After the long delay due to the pandemic, the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative is inviting the world’s soil biodiversity researchers, educators, and policy supporters to join us in Dublin, Ireland on 13-15th March 2023 for the 3rd Global Soil Biodiversity Conference.Please explore the website for comprehensive information on attendance. Call for submissions is now open. Submissions are invited on any scientific topic relevant to the conference theme “Science as a basis for the sustainable use and conservation of soil biodiversity.”

Starting at 10 am CET, a two-hour thematic webinar to mark the launch of the Study on Land Degradation, Climate Change and Migration Nexus in Central Asia will bring together leading experts from the region in the sphere of sustainable land management. The authors and contributors will present results of the study undertaken over the period of several years, followed by an open discussion on the themes raised in the study. The event will be conducted in Russian with English translation. Register here...