Bonn, Germany – Recognizing that ecosystem restoration is one of the most cost-effective solutions for achieving sustainable development, the UNCCD welcomes the publication of the International Restoration Standards developed by the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER). As noted by the UNCCD…
Bonn is home to twenty UN organizations dedicated to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda as a way to a more sustainable, resilient and equal future. For 25 years, UNCCD has dedicated its efforts to promoting the sustainable way of living and working on land, the foundation of all life.
Bonn, 30 September 2019 – The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification was agreed in 1994. It made the UN Campus in Bonn its home in 1999. On Monday, 30 September, the city, together with the Convention’s employees, partner organizations, Bonn’s Mayor Ashok Sridharan and Ibrahim Thiaw, the Convention’s Executive Secretary, will…
The representatives of Montenegro confirm that COP14 has given a new momentum to the implementation of drought-related activities and integration of land degradation neutrality (LDN) targets into the national strategic documents and their successful translation into the upcoming transformative…
Influential leaders from business, politics, media, the film and music industries gathered at Goals House in New York, to spotlight the Great Green Wall as a practical, low-cost nature-based solution responding to the global climate emergency. Participants called on governments, civil society and…
New York, 22 September 2019 – On the eve of the UN Climate Action Summit, global leaders from government, business and civil society are issuing an urgent call to action to grow an 8000km natural wonder of the world across the entire width of the African continent.
The Great Green Wall, an African-led movement, aims to, at once, drive forward…
On 23September 2019, the Secretary-General of the United Nations will host the Climate Action Summit in New York with the objective of boosting ambition and rapidly accelerate action to implement the Paris Agreement. Read more: UN Climate Action Summit 2019
The framework used for reporting action will be improved to ensure it captures key issues, such as gender equality, drought response and the influence of consumption and production patterns and flows on land degradation. Through the Delhi Declaration, ministers expressed support for new initiatives…
The framework used for reporting action will be improved to ensure it captures key issues, such as gender equality, drought response and the influence of consumption and production patterns and flows on land degradation. Through the Delhi Declaration, ministers expressed support for new initiatives or coalitions aiming to improve human health and…
We, the Ministers and Representatives gathered for the high-level segment at the fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), held on 9–10 September 2019 in New Delhi at the invitation of the Government of the Republic of India,
The Global Mechanism has released a briefing note that explores interlinkages between land degradation, poverty and inequality, making the case that investing in land degradation neutrality matters for some of the most pressing country priorities, such as ending poverty and reducing inequality.
The launch of the new UNCCD interactive Drought Toolbox became the highlight of the day, offering country parties a practical interactive platform to develop national drought plans and switch to a proactive approach to drought management.
On 11 September the Group of Friends on the Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (GOF DLDD) met in the margins of UNCCD COP14 in New Delhi. The event, facilitated and attended by Ibrahim Thiaw, UNCCD Executive Secretary, offered the opportunity to recommit to achieving land degradation…
The Group of friends (GOF) held a ministerial and high-level breakfast on 10 September 2019 in the sidelines of COP14 under the Co-Chairmanship Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Minister of Environment and Natural resources of Iceland, and Penomwenyo Pohamba Shifeta, Minister of Environment and Tourism of Namibia.
On the road to the Climate Action Summit, the Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of India and President of COP14, His Excellency Mr. Prakash Javedkar, and the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Her Excellency Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, hosted a high-level luncheon on land and climate on 9 September 2019, on the margins of the…
On the road to the Climate Action Summit, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Ms. Amina Mohammed and the Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of India and President of COP14 Mr. Prakash Javedkar, hosted a high-level luncheon on land and climate.
The Global Mechanism (GM) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) jointly hosted an evening reception at UNCCD COP 14 in New Delhi, India. The reception provided a platform to bring together esteemed guests and key actors from…
New Delhi, 9 September 2019 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on the international community to set up a global water action agenda as the central theme to achieve land degradation neutrality. He announced that India will restore an additional 5 million hectares of degraded land by 2030, raising the land to be restored in India to 26…
