Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran – Around 100 representatives of UN organizations, Iranian national institutions and government agencies from the countries of Asia and the Pacific gathered on 5-6 November 2018 for an expert consultation meeting on regional cooperation to build disaster resilience…

Konya and Mersin, Turkey – The 16th International training on combating desertification took place on 22-27 October 2018, bringing together international experts from the country parties of the Pan African Agency for the Great Green Wall (PAGGW) and Arab Organization for Agricultural Development…

10 am – 1 pm PCCB Capacity Building Hub Climate Change Conference COP 24 Katowice, Poland UNCCD, together with its sister Rio conventions, FAO and UN-Habitat, will participate in the side event on the margins of the upcoming UNFCCC COP 24 in Katowice, Poland. The event, supported by the Paris…

Kyoto, Japan – The new Land Degradation Neutrality Initiative (GEO LDN Initiative), launched during the Group on Earth Observations Week 2018, will bring together Earth observation data providers and governments to develop quality standards, analytical tools and capacity building needed to…

"The Group of Earth Observations launches a new, innovative initiative to put Earth Observation (EO) data in the hands of national and local decision makers in order to halt and reverse land degradation, and Germany immediately pledges EUR100,000 (USD$113,000) for the initiative." Kyoto, Japan. Over…

New York, USA – The delegates from the parliament of Iceland visited the UNCCD New York Liaison office on 24 October 2018 to discuss the work of the convention and the role of land restoration in achieving Iceland’s recent decision to go carbon neutral by 2040. Speaking to the delegates, the Chief…

Kazbegi, Georgia – The regional conference “Integrated Erosion Control – from local experience to a vision for the South Caucasus,” organized by GIZ South Caucasus, Regional Environmental Center for South Caucasus and the UNCCD Secretariat, took place on 17-19 October 2018. Around 80 participants…

The new course that aims to provide better understanding of linkages between gender and environment is the result of a joint initiative led by the Global Environment Facility ( the GEF) and its Small Grants Programme (SGP) in collaboration with the GEF Gender Partnership and the United Nations…

Bonn, Germany – Five regional training workshops on reporting have been conducted in March-May 2018 as part of the capacity building activities implemented by the UNCCD secretariat, the Global Mechanism (GM), UN Environment and the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The workshops have been attended…

Bolzano/Bozen, Italy – Researchers, practitioners, representatives of governmental structures, NGOs, UN agencies and the private sector institutions converged this week in the autonomous province of South Tyrol in the Alps of northern Italy for the Global Mountain Safeguard Research (GLOMOS)…

Bonn, Germany – Once again UNCCD has joined other UN organizations based in Bonn for a yearly celebration in the historic Marktplatz on 20 October 2018. To entice the crowds to visit the UNCCD booth and learn more about the organization's work, the Capacity Building Marketplace team designed fun…

Date: Thursday, October 25, 2018, 1:30 pm– 2:30 pm Venue: ZEF, Genscherallee 3, 53113 Bonn, Right Conference Room A public colloquium with Dr. Moctar Sacande from FAO who will give a talk “Africa’s Great Green Wall: Making a dream come true. FAO’s Action Against Desertification (AAD) programme.”…

UNCCD Parties decided at COP13 that the secretariat should commission a study on “The role that measures taken to implement the Convention can play to address desertification, land degradation and drought as one of the drivers that cause migration.” The study will be presented at the UNCCD COP14 in…

LIVE stream The seventeenth session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 17) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), will be held at the Arthur Chung Conference Center (ACCC) from 28 to 30 January 2019 in Georgetown, Guyana. CRIC17…

16 October is the World Food Day, celebrated to draw attention to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 that calls to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture. Modern agriculture and livestock cover over one-third of the world’s…

Bonn, Germany – 26 experts, including scientists and policy-makers from every region, as well as the representatives of the global observer organizations, gathered on 10-12 October for the eighth meeting of the UNCCD Science-Policy Interface (SPI). The meeting objectives included defining outlines…

The International Day for Disaster Reduction is celebrated on 13 October to showcase how people and communities around the world reduce their exposure to disasters and to raise awareness on the importance of managing disaster risks. The UNCCD is making a contribution to addressing extreme natural…

Agadez, Niger – A community stabilization project, recently launched by the International Organization for Migration and supported through the UNCCD 3S (Sustainability. Stability. Security) Initiative, is giving young Nigerians in Agadez a reason to dream of a better future in their communities. The…

The Trust for Sustainable Living invites schoolchildren around the world to share their ideas on how they can help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goal 15 “Conserve and sustainably manage life on land.” The essay competition is open to primary and secondary students, and to participate, a…

17:30 – 19:30 Deutsche Welle Kurt - Schumacher - Str. 3 53113 Bonn Germany Some of Europe's most pressing socio-economic priorities and challenges, including rising inequalities, youth unemployment and climate change, are covered under the Sustainable Development Goals, making it imperative for the…

The UNCCD Secretariat welcomes the Pyongyang Joint Declaration of September 2018. We welcome the Summit’s pledge to actively promote environmental cooperation, in particular, through forestry. The UNCCD secretariat is ready to support common efforts that, in the spirit of the Sustainable Development…

The Earth is fragile and changing, and no single government has sufficient resources to help communities fully adapt to the changes and then recover after an environmental disaster. It is a growing but ominous reality. The cost and number of climate related disasters is rising. The total cost of the…

A technical workshop on the Caribbean sub-regional LDN transformative project "Implementing Gender-Responsive and Climate Smart Land Management in the Caribbean" is being held in St. Lucia, West Indies, from 26 to 28 September. The workshop is co-organized by the UNCCD/GM, UN-Women, IUCN, and FAO…

(la version en français suit / French text follows) At the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 73) general debate, H.E. Mr. Saad-Eddine El Othmani, Prime Minister of Morocco, spoke about the Sustainability, Security and Stability Initiative (the 3S Initiative) as one of the African-led…