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Droughts are a global phenomenon and affect countries in every region of the world. 2. Globally, the area affected by drought is increasing every year. 3. Over the Mediterranean region, drying may be increasing. 4. Globally, droughts are also becoming more severe and frequent. 5. Droughts are more frequent over the East Coast of the United States of America, Amazonia and north-eastern Brazil, Patagonia, the Mediterranean region, most of Africa and north-eastern China, but frequency has decreased over northern Argentina, Uruguay and northern Europe. 6. Droughts are more intense over north-western USA, parts of Patagonia and southern Chile, the Sahel, the Congo River basin, southern Europe, north-eastern China, and southeastern Australia. Eastern USA, south-eastern Brazil, northern Europe, and central northern Australia have experienced less severe droughts

Since 2010, reporting has been done through the Performance Review and Assessment of Implementation System (PRAIS).  The latest version, PRAIS 4, includes several key features:    A user-friendly interface, including web-based reporting forms pre-filled with default data from global data sources, for…

The reporting manual provides step-by-step methodological guidance for the preparation of national reports. The reporting manual for the 2022 reporting process is available in all UN languages, and can be found here.   

The secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) presents its compliments to the Embassy and has the honour to inform that the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15), the twentieth session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC20) and the fifteenth session of the Committee on Science and Technology (CST15) to the UNCCD will take place at the Sofitel Hôtel Ivoire in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire from 9 to 20 May 2022. The secretariat of UNCCD has the honour to invite the Government of your country to participate in COP15 under the overarching theme “Land. Life. Legacy. From scarcity to prosperity”.

This methodological note provides guidance for estimating the proportion of populations exposed to land degradation disaggregated by sex, as a first step towards addressing the gender data gap on land degradation issues within the UNCCD reporting framework.  

This report reviews existing indicators and metrics for reporting on biodiversity and recommends, in addition to the Red List Index, a new indicator as an area-based measure of national responses to conserving biodiversity, namely trends in protected area coverage of important…