UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification)
The United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNCCD) was established in 1994 and is the only legally binding international agreement that links environmental and development to sustainable land management.
The United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNCCD) is a Rio Convention that focuses on desertification, land degradation, and drought (DLDD) in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Desertification
- It is a type of land degradation in which the biological productivity of land is lost due to natural processes or by induced human activities whereby fertile areas become increasingly arid.
- UNCCD launched Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) to conserve, sustainably manage and ....
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