UNCCD will have a major presence at the upcoming Earth Day Week on 20-25 April 2020. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Earth Day, artists and speakers from all over the world will come together for free online public events. On Wednesday 22 April, Land Ambassador Ricky Kej will join…
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 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.
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…
New Delhi, India, 29 August 2019 – The Fourteenth Session of the Conference of Parties (COP14) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification opens on Monday afternoon, 2 September 2019, in New Delhi, India, and ends Friday, 13 September 2019.
A press conference to present the expected outcomes will take place at 13:15 – 13:45 on…
