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Durban, South Africa – The UNCCD Executive Secretary Mr. Ibrahim Thiaw presented outcomes of the UNCCD COP14 to the high-level segment of the seventeenth session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) on Thursday 14 November. In this speech, Mr. Thiaw emphasized the central role of land in addressing the 2030 Agenda and the leading global challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. AMCEN is bringing together representatives of many African countries as well as international organizations and CSOs under the theme "Taking action for environmental sustainability and prosperity in Africa." The conference will prepare African participants for the upcoming UNFCCC Climate Conference and 2020 UN Biodiversity Conference, and will also review the recent Climate Action Summit and other fora. Read more: UNCCD: the regions The speech of the UNCCD Executive Secretary
Join @UNCCD on Twitter on Monday, 18 November at 11:30AM (UTC+1) for a Twitter Live Event with Sadhguru and UNCCD Executive Secretary Mr. Ibrahim Thiaw to discuss how land users, governments and the civil society can collaborate to promote sustainable land management globally.
UNCCD organized a side event on the GEO Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Initiative which raised awareness on the potential of EO data to be used at the national level. Awards were given to Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, for developing robust land degradation mapping methods and to Conservational International for the Trends.Earth tool for accessing big EO datasets.
The training provided assistance in developing financial project proposals that target the Green Climate Fund and are focused on reaching national commitments in the framework of the LDN and Forest and Land Restoration initiatives.
The UNCCD Science-Policy Interface member Dr. Marijana Kapovic Solomun gave a lecture about the work of UNCCD and the concept of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) for the participants of the seventy-eighth UNEP/UNESCO/BMU International Short Course on Soil and Land Resources for Sustainable Development at the Centre for International Postgraduate Studies of Environmental Management of the Technical University of Dresden on 22 October 2019.
A delegation of Tsinghua University led by Mr. He Jijiang, the Executive Deputy Director of its Institute on Energy Transformation and Social Development, visited the UNCCD Secretariat to present China's successful experience in the implementation of innovative solar power-supported ecosystem restoration and livelihoods' improvement model.