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This informal guide was prepared by the UNCCD secretariat with the purpose of assisting participants to the meetings in Abidjan in making the sessions a success. This guide seeks to provide an overview of the structure, programme and agenda items of COP 15, CST 15 and CRIC 20, and practical information on how the work is carried out at the formal and informal settings. …

For the meta-study, commissioned by WWF and carried out by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), 2,592 studies were evaluated that were conducted between 1960 and 2019. Plastic pollution in the ocean is growing exponentially and will continue to increase. Every year, about 19-23 million tonnes of plastic waste end up in the waters - the equivalent of almost two truckloads per minute…

Tenure security is a crucial enabler for land degradation neutrality. Without rights to property, communities lack the security to invest in the ecosystems on which they depend, which can hinder uptake of sustainable management practices even when support for them is offered. In September 2019, Parties to the UNCCD adopted a landmark decision 26/COP14 on Land Tenure at the 14th…

The second edition of the Global Land Outlook (GLO2), Land Restoration for Recovery and Resilience, sets out the rationale, enabling factors, and diverse pathways by which countries and communities can reduce and reverse land degradation by designing and implementing their bespoke land restoration agenda. Land restoration for recovery and resilience is about creating livelihood and development…

Produced jointly by the secretariats of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), with contributions from multiple stakeholders, this technical guide addresses the integration of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National…

Land degradation is one of the most challenging environmental problems that the world is currently facing. Like climate change and biodiversity loss, the international community’s ability to address global land degradation and desertification is often hindered by the conundrum of having to channel a massive amount of funds into countries whose economies are already heavily indebted and…