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The aim of the Compendium is to provide information and guidance on how to assess and address the risks posed by sand and dust storms and plan actions to combat sand and dust storms. The Compendium brings together information and guidance from a wide range of sources. It includes approaches and methodology frameworks on data collection, assessment, monitoring and early warning, impact…

The report, an authoritative compendium of drought-related information and data, helps inform negotiations of one of several decisions by UNCCD’s 196 member states, to be issued 20 May at the conclusion of COP15.

This report explores methods of financing land restoration using nature-based debt instruments such as debt-for-nature swaps, the established use-of-proceeds bond structure and the novel sustainability-linked bond concept.

The guide provides practical methods to integrate the VGGT into UNCCD and Land Degradation Neutrality efforts, supporting policymakers in addressing land tenure issues through adaptable approaches, legal frameworks, and national strategies to combat desertification and land degradation.

The report provides an analytical overview of common tools and approaches that are used, or can be used, to support integrated land use planning (ILUP) and integrated landscape management (ILM) and identifies ways in which these tools and approaches can aid in achieving LDN targets.

While the first picture of Earth from deep space invoked awe and wonder, they also graphically revealed the startling reality of the finite and stark boundaries in which humanity exists. Whitin these boundaries, the Earth has entered the age of Anthropocene, where humans are dominant force altering the Earth System.