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Carbon markets are expanding quickly, but the benefits are not reaching everyone. As many drought-affected and land-dependent communities still find the system difficult to access and hard to trust, the urgency is growing to ensure that carbon finance delivers more than emissions reductions. This white paper outlines practical ways to ensure carbon finance supports land restoration and…
Status of contributions to the core budget for the years 1999
Sustainable rangeland management and rangeland restoration offer substantial returns across ecological, social and economic dimensions. Realizing these benefits depends on the coordinated efforts of investors, governments, policymakers, pastoralist communities and development partners. Suitable investment can be enabled by more effective governance, inclusive participation and innovative…
The brief summarizes assessments to detail SIDS' challenges and opportunities regarding land and drought and points to urbanization, unsustainable agriculture and extractive industries as drivers of land degradation in these most climate-vulnerable territories.
Adopted at UNFCCC COP30 in Belém, Brazil on 18 November 2025, this statement by the Presidencies of UNFCCC COP30 (Brazil), CBD COP16 (Colombia), CBD COP17 (Armenia), UNCCD COP16 (Saudi Arabia) and UNCCD COP17 (Mongolia) sets out joint commitments to…
