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14/11/2019
Turkey plants millions of trees to set the world record
UNCCD News
Eleven million saplings have been planted in three hours in 2 023 locations in 81 provinces across Turkey during “Breath for the Future” campaign on…
14/11/2019
AMCEN 17th session reviews COP14, gears up for the climate and biodiversity summits
UNCCD News
Durban, South Africa – The UNCCD Executive Secretary Mr. Ibrahim Thiaw presented outcomes of the UNCCD COP14 to the high-level segment of the…
13/11/2019
Twitter Live event with Sadhguru and Ibrahim Thiaw
UNCCD News
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…
07/11/2019
Using Earth observation to advance Agenda 2030: GEO summit in Canberra
UNCCD News
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…
06/11/2019
Regional workshop builds knowledge for developing LDN project funding proposals
UNCCD News
The training provided assistance in developing financial project proposals that target the Green Climate Fund and are focused on reaching national…
05/11/2019
Land is the basis for life on Earth: lecture at TU Dresden
UNCCD News
Dresden, Germany – The UNCCD Science-Policy Interface member Dr. Marijana Kapovic Solomun gave a lecture about the work of UNCCD and the concept of…
01/11/2019
Tsinghua University visits UNCCD to discuss future cooperation
UNCCD News
A delegation of Tsinghua University led by Mr. He Jijiang, the Executive Deputy Director of its Institute on Energy Transformation and Social…
01/11/2019
UNCCD Land Ambassador Ricky Kej: Bringing the world together, one song at a time
UNCCD News
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…
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Soil and the SDGs: Challenges and need for action
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Global Soil Symposium on Biodiversity
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23/10/2019
Africa developing new tools to build resilience to future drought shocks
01/10/2019
25 years of reversing land degradation/20 years in Bonn: Mayor Sridharan pays tribute to UNCCD
23/09/2019
Make Africa's Great Green Wall a reality by 2030 - Industry leaders urge
15/09/2019
COP14: Conference reaches major breakthroughs
Opinions
07/11/2019
Statement of UNCCD Executive Secretary Ibrahim Thiaw in response to the Beijing Call for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change
14/10/2019
How to reduce drought disasters? Try better land management
09/09/2019
We must change our relationship with land to solve climate and biodiversity crises
03/09/2019
Science guides UN actions to curb land degradation
