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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…

This methodological note informs reporting on UNCCD strategic objective 5 which aims at mobilizing substantial and additional financial and non-financial resources to support the implementation of the Convention by building effective partnerships at global and national level.  …

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Decision 8/COP.9 requested the secretariat to generate advocacy policy frame- works on thematic issues in order to address the adverse impacts of DLDD, and to regularly inform affected countries and other key stakeholders on such proceed- ings that may be useful in the implementation of action programmes. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions on “Combatting…