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UNCCD Land Ambassador Ricky Kej visited in Sri Lanka last week as part of his tour to promote the role of land as an accelerator for achieving the Sustainable Development Goal.
UNCCD is launching an online contest for the Desertification and Drought Day 2020 theme and slogan
The UNCCD invites experts to apply to become members of the Science-Policy Interface (SPI) to promote dialog between scientists and policy-makers on desertification, land degradation and drought.
The Africa Risk Capacity (ARC) and UNCCD announced they will collaborate to support the development of financial tools to help Africa adapt and become resilient to future drought and other extreme weather events.
At its tenth meeting, the Inter-Agency Expert Group on SDG indicators (IAEG-SDGs) upgraded indicator 15.3.1 (proportion of land that is degraded over total land area) to Tier One status based on the reporting of the UNCCD, the custodian agency for this indicator. This means that the indicator is conceptually clear, has an internationally established methodology and standards are available, and data are regularly produced by countries for at least 50 per cent of countries and of the population in every region where the indicator is relevant. Based on the UNCCD national reports of 2018, the UNCCD secretariat reported regional and globally to the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in July 2019. This included data generated by 123 countries and estimates for an additional 42 countries. Read more: The storyline and graphic The metadata document for SDG indicator 15.3.1
This Saturday, the UNCCD team took the Market Square in the center of Bonn by storm, staging a hugely successful flashmob to celebrate the UN Day.