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note 6; Asian Development Bank, Technical Assistance to the People's Republic of China For Optimizing Initiatives to Combat Desertification in Gansu Province (Manila, Philippines: June 2001).

CNIRD's Director of Programmes, Zakiya Uzoma - Wadada (right) participates in a tree planting exercise to mark World Day to Combat Desertification in Trinidad and Tobago.

On the occasion of celebrating the World Day to Combat Desertification in 2017, the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment will hold a workshop in Damascus on 6 July under the theme, «Our Land.

By the end of the 13th meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Ordos, China, 113 countries had agreed to specify concrete targets with clear indicators, to rehabilitate more land and reverse degradation, which currently affects over a third of the world's land resources.

The formal notice that it was pulling out of the international treaty, officially the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and / or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, was delivered to the United Nations on Monday.

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12 September 2017 — Ordos, China — The Land Degradation Neutrality Fund (LDN Fund) was launched on 12 September 2017 at the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China.

On 17 June, the Land Degradation Neutrality Fund Project was presented in Beijing on the occasion of the official celebration of the World Day to Combat Desertification.

A breakthrough agreement reached at the Conference of the Parties to the Convention to Combat Desertification means that the amount of healthy and productive land may stay stable starting in 2030.

Established in 1994, the United Nations to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is the sole legally binding international agreement linking environment and development to sustainable land management.

In 1992, the Earth Summit established three Rio Conventions: the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

The Rio Conference called on the United Nations General Assembly to establish an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) to prepare, by June 1994, a Convention to Combat Desertification, particularly in Africa.

The eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification convened under the theme «A stronger UNCCD for a Land - Degradation Neutral World» in September 2013 in Windhoek, Namibia.

The Conference in Ankara was responding to a key target for 2030, which is to combat desertification, and restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land - degradation neutral world.

Ms. Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) emphasized the importance of China in spearheading work to achieve land degradation neutrality and ensuring that it becomes humanity's defining achievement of the 21st Century.

A the press - conference in honor of the World Day to Combat Desertification, the Head of Biological and Landscape Diversity of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus Ms. Natalia Minchenko noted that the experience of Belarus with rewetting as a one of the elements of ecological rehabilitation of degraded peatlands is being picked up by other countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

2016 — Cairo, Egypt — As part of the World Day to Combat Desertification, the 2015 Land for Life Award winner SEKEM published a series of articles covering the role of sustainable development approaches in combating dDesertification, the 2015 Land for Life Award winner SEKEM published a series of articles covering the role of sustainable development approaches in combating desertificationdesertification.

Land degradation in the drylands, commonly known as desertification, begins with the clearing of vegetation, which means «forests are the first step towards healing the drylands and protecting them from desertification and drought,» as Mr. Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Udesertification, begins with the clearing of vegetation, which means «forests are the first step towards healing the drylands and protecting them from desertification and drought,» as Mr. Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Udesertification and drought,» as Mr. Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UDesertification (UNCCD) observes.

The Conferences of the Parties to each of the Rio Conventions — namely the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)-- have underlined through numerous decisions the need for enhanced collaboration in order to harness synergies, enhance coordination and increase the effectiveness of operations.

The 2018 World Day to Combat Desertification (# 2018WDCD) urges you to move away from unsustainable land use and make a difference by investing in the future of land under the slogan, «Land has true value — invest in it.»

Since 2015 and as part of its commitment to increase financing for the Sustainable Development Goals, Mirova has been working alongside the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to launch the Land Degradation Neutrality Fund project, a public - private vehicle that intends to invest in profit - generating sustainable land management and restoration projects worldwide.

To this end, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) aims to sensitize the public to the fact that desertification, land degradation and drought dramatically affect biodiversity reDesertification (UNCCD) aims to sensitize the public to the fact that desertification, land degradation and drought dramatically affect biodiversity redesertification, land degradation and drought dramatically affect biodiversity resident in soil.

11.06.2016 — Lanzhou, China — 40, 000 people participated in the Lanzhou International Marathon in the northwest dryland region of China to celebrate the World Day to Combat Desertification and promote its message «Protect Earth.

Two key projects spearheaded by the UNCCD / GM in addressing desertification: the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund; and the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI), were discussed during the meeting on the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change held between the Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy of France and President of COP21, Ségolène Royal, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), held in Bonn on 22desertification: the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund; and the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI), were discussed during the meeting on the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change held between the Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy of France and President of COP21, Ségolène Royal, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), held in Bonn on 22Desertification (UNCCD), held in Bonn on 22 February 2016.

Department of Environment and Forest will celebrate this year's WDCD by organizing a workshop, «World Day to Combat Desertification», on 17 June in Dhaka.

To promote public awareness of land degradation and to draw attention to the implementation of the UNCCD in countries experiencing serious drought and / or desertification, particularly in Africa, the United Nations General Assembly declared 17 June to be «World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought» desertification, particularly in Africa, the United Nations General Assembly declared 17 June to be «World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought» Desertification and Drought» (WDCD) in 1994.

A new publication, The Global Land Outlook (GLO), was recently launched at the 13th meeting of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China.Speaking at the launch, UNCCD Executive Secretary Monique Barbut said how land degradation and drought are global challenges «intimately linked» to food security, migration and employment, among others factors.

Using livestock to combat desertification and restore grasslands is one example, and the ongoing efforts of people in places such as Madagascar and Haida Gwaii to find win - win solutions that restore and enhance marine biodiversity and support local food security is another.

In his address to the Heads of States Summit held on the occasion of the 22nd Session of the Conference of Parties (COP22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), French President Mr. François Hollande announced his decision to join other public and private sector investors in the establishment of the LDN Fund, as part of France's commitment to combat desertification and mobilize the necessary resourceIn his address to the Heads of States Summit held on the occasion of the 22nd Session of the Conference of Parties (COP22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), French President Mr. François Hollande announced his decision to join other public and private sector investors in the establishment of the LDN Fund, as part of France's commitment to combat desertification and mobilize the necessary resourcein the establishment of the LDN Fund, as part of France's commitment to combat desertification and mobilize the necessary resources.

As part of its campaign to tackle global environmental deterioration in particular by combatting the degradation of drylands — which cover up to one quarter of the world's land surface — the United Nations General Assembly designated 17 June as «World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought».

China has developed industrial models to combat desertification, and reported that «the area affected by desertification has declined for three inventory periods in a row, since 2004.»

He has been a member of several delegations focused on water problems in developing countries, including the Israeli delegation to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Namibia.

Updated, 8:10 p.m. President Obama today joined the parade of leaders addressing a United Nations session hailing the adoption of 17 Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, which range from extremely lofty («end poverty in all its forms everywhere») to doable but difficult («sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss»).

In this regard, ROAM will also enable countries to define and implement national or subnational contributions to the Bonn Challenge and concurrently allow nations to meet existing international commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the United Nations Framework to Combat Climate Change.

«The Great North American Dust Bowl: A Cautionary Tale,» in Secretariat of the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification, Global Alarm: Dust and Sandstorms from the World's Drylands (Bangkok: 2002), pp. 77 — 121.

combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought in countries experiencing serious drought through effective action at all levels with a view to achieve sustainable development in affected areas.

1994 — students in Ken Cline's International Environmental Law and Policy class attended (and supported Southern NGO's in) negotiations over the UN Convention to Combat Desertification at the United Nations in New York.

An expert of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification said that the green roof has a good many practical strongpoints, like strengthening the buildings» anti-mechanocaloric effect ability, releasing the effect of acute temperature change in winter and summer, absorbing and minishing urban noise, as well as creating new eco-environment for the species of animals and plants in cities.

Further, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) defines land degradation as a reduction or loss in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rain - fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, forest and woodlands resulting from land uses or from a process or combination of processes, including those arising from human activities and habitation patterns, such as: (i) soil erosion caused by wind and / or water; (ii) deterioration of the physical, chemical, and biological or economic properties of soil; and (iii) long - term loss of natural vegetation.

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification defines land degradation as a reduction or loss in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas, of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rain - fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, forest, and woodlands resulting from land uses or from a process or combination of processes, including processes arising from human activities and habitation patterns, such as (i) soil erosion caused by wind and / or water; (ii) deterioration of the physical, chemical and biological or economic properties of soil; and (iii) long - term loss of natural vegetation.

Australia is leading the way in everything from strategies to combat desertification to using renewable energy for desalination plants, and now it is putting that knowledge to work on six new infrastructure projects that can save 1.3 billion gallons of water.

This landscape could change with Tree - Nation, an ecological project whose goal is to plant 8 million trees in the Sahara desert to combat climate change, desertification and poverty

«We need to learn from the resilience of Israel in developing drylands,» Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Ambassador Gregoire de Kalbermatten told attendees from 30 countries.