The President of the General Assembly will convene a High-level Dialogue to assess the progress made in the fight against DLDD during the UN Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification and and map the way forward. More info...

UNCCD Secretariat and WOCAT will launch their joint new publication "Restoring Life to the Land – The Role of Sustainable Land Management in Ecosystem Restoration." It will illustrate how Sustainable Land Management (SLM) experience feeds directly into ecosystem restoration efforts, as well as…

Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish | English Happy Desertification and Drought Day! We invite children from all over the world to draw and share with the world their vision of the land they would like to live on in the future. To participate in the art competition, please read and follow…

The 2021 Desertification and Drought Day to be held on 17 June will focus on turning degraded land into healthy land. Restoring degraded land brings economic resilience, creates jobs, raises incomes and increases food security. It helps biodiversity to recover. It locks away the atmospheric carbon…

To conclude the works of the Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council, and also in the context of the celebrations of the desertification and drought day, the Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council will hold a webinar on 25 June (14.30-16.30 CET) to discuss the pressures on Soil. What indications do…

Arabic ǀ Chinese ǀ French ǀ Spanish ǀ Russian 07:00 to 08:15 GMT/UTC Speakers: Ms. Tina Birmpili – Deputy Executive Secretary of the UNCCD Mr. Shameek Chakravarty - Founder and CEO at Farmizen Mr. Mincheol Jeong - Founder and Director of Tree Planet Ms. Zhang Xin - Founder and CEO, Shandong Xinguan…

The series of films aims to celebrate the global observance of the Desertification and Drought Day on 17 June 2020 and raise awareness on the theme this year: Restoration. Land. Recovery. Film 1 | Film 2 | Film 3 | Film 4 | Film 5 Film 1: Butterflyway project in Canada Butterflies are among key…

The event is co-hosted by Turkey and Hungary, chair and vice-chair of the UNCCD regional Annex IV (Northern Mediterranean region) with the support of the UNCCD Secretariat. The conference will be organized in an online format to include a presentation on the EU policy for COVID-19 recovery in the…

Asia Pacific Youth Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Crisis is a consultation workshop for the 9th Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022. The workshop aims to strengthen, empower and mobilize young people for DRR and climate action, It is a mechanism…

In 2021, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”) by 2030 with the intention of inducing collaborative efforts to Build Back Better , and transform the way society produces, consumes…

The Land for Life Award is designed to reward impactful holistic approaches and practices that address the ecological and the social aspects of sustainable land management as a means of achieving land degradation neutrality. The Award is given to most diverse changemakers engaged in land restoration…

To mark the start of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, this event in the margins of twenty-fifth anniversary of UN Bonn will bring together UNCCD, Global Landscapes Forum, IFOAM and Fairtrade will discuss land restoration and land–nature–climate–agriculture–consumption nexus Register here.

Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish Bonn, 17/06/2020 - World leaders are rallying support for a coordinated and coherent approach to reverse the loss of healthy land in light of the role it can play in the global efforts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and to deal with the crises of…

MEDIA ADVISORY Countries assess the progress made in the fight against DLDD and map the way forward What: The President of the General Assembly, H.E. Mr. Volkan Bozkir, will convene a high-level meeting with the support of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to assess the…

EN ESPAÑOL | Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada and Minister of the Environment and Energy Andrea Meza Murillo will lead an international event to rally up a global high ambition to restore degrading land to hasten the post-COVID-19 recovery The event…

Climate change, overuse and conversion for agriculture, cities and infrastructure mean that one fifth of the planet’s land area is degraded. This damage, which also drives drought and desertification, harms the livelihoods of almost half the planet’s population. However, as much as one billion…

The Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems Summit will set the stage for the culminating global event in September by bringing together diverse actors from around the world to leverage the power of food systems to deliver progress on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Hosted by the Government…

Following the successful Pre-Summit in Rome, Italy, the UN Food Systems Summit will take place on September 23, 2021 during the UN General Assembly in New York. The Summit aimed at raising global awareness and land global commitments and actions that transform food systems to resolve not only hunger…

According to Rule 4.3 of the rules of procedure of the COP, the second extraordinary session of the COP (COP ES-2) shall be convened within three months of the request being communicated to the Parties by the UNCCD secretariat, provided that it is supported by at least one third of the Parties. In…

UNCCD and FAO are co-organizing the first webinar on responsible governance of land tenure as a vehicle to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), combat drought and desertification. The event is part of the Resilient Food Systems Programme (RFS) that encompasses a series of four webinars and…

10 evenings, 3 locations, 70 musicians from 20 countries – Over the Border Festival is back in full swing for the fifth time! While the pandemic forced the festival organizers, the participants and their fans to face many challenges over the past year and a half, they are determined to bring the…

(French text follows) Alarmed by the dangerous effects of climate change especially on fragile and unstable communities, African governments meeting at the Climate Change Conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, agreed on practical measures to set the region on a path towards security, stability and…

(French text follows) Marrakesh, (15/11/16) - “The Kingdom of Morocco will host the Africa Regional coordination Unit of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). This will provide the secretariat with vital support services that the Parties to the Convention need to…

Of the Convention’s 197 Parties, 169 countries have declared that they are affected by desertification. More than 1.5 billion people directly depend on land that is slowly being degraded. Every year 75 billion tons of fertile soil is lost to land degradation. Similarly 12 million hectares of land…