Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "LAND DEGRADATION"
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2/24. Combating Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought and Promoting Sustainable Pastoralism and Rangelands - UNEP/EA.2/Res.24
(2016-08-03)The United Nations Environment Assembly, among others, calls on the United Nations Environment Programme to contribute to strengthening existing global partnerships that promote a shared vision of resilient landscapes for ... -
4 Million Trees in 4 years Initiative (4MT4Y)
(2019)In the fight against climate change and protecting our environment and rich biodiversity, the Fijian Government is embarking on the ‘4 million trees in 4 years initiative’(4MT4Y) as it recognizes the important service that ... -
The ABC for Sustainable Cities: A Glossary for Policy Makers
(2016)The ABC for Sustainable Cities aims to bring clarity on this. Rather than providing a single univocal definition of what is a “Sustainable City”, it brings together key elements of it by compiling terms and concepts from ... -
Acknowledgements - GEO for Business Brief No. 3: The Role of Business in Transforming Food Systems
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Africa Environment Outlook for Business: Our Environment Our Health
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2023-08)AEO for Business aims to identify and document options for stimulating the linkages between business and environmental sustainability in Africa while augmenting their benefits to people, nature, and economies and achieving ... -
Africa Environmental Education and Training Action Plan 2015-2024: Strengthening Sustainable Development in Africa
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016-01)The main objective of the Africa Environmental Education and Training Action Plan (AEETAP) is to enhance community environmental education and training within the continent, through various formal education, training, ... -
African Ministerial Statement to the World Summit on Sustainable Development: Adopted at the African Preparatory Conference for the World Summit on Sustainable Development
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A Call to Action: Gender Transformative Approaches to Address the Intertwined Impacts of Climate Change, Land Degradation, Biodiversity Loss and Pollution: A Report on UNEP’s Side Event at the 66th Meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women
(2022-09)The side event sought to address the gendered dimensions of the triple planetary crisis with a particular focus on the gender differentiated impacts and inequalities perpetuated by climate change, biodiversity loss and ... -
Capacity Building Partnership in the Field of Land Restoration and Sustainable Land Management for the Mitigation and Adaptation of Climate Change: Focus on Developing Countries
(2019)By building capacities of people who are in a key position to make real changes on the ground is vital to be successful in managing land in a sustainable way, preventing land degradation and restoring already degraded ... -
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification, Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems - Summary for Policymakers
(2019)This Summary for Policymakers (SPM) is structured in four parts: A) People, land and climate in a warming world; B) Adaptation and mitigation response options; C) Enabling response options; and D) Action in the near-term. -
Combating Global Climate Change by Combating Land Degradation: Proceedings of a Workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya
(1995)An International Workshop was held to consider land degradation in drylands and its management, particularly as it relates to carbon management as a means to combat global warming. Twenty specialists from nine countries ... -
A Commitment to the Future: Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection
(United Nations Environment Programme, 1992)Between 1974 and 1992 I gave more than 600 statements and lectures on various aspects of the environment to governmental meetings, scientific conferences, international gatherings and non-governmental organizations. This ... -
Cross-cutting Capacity Development
(2017)Despite population growth, increased urbanization, and accelerating climate change, we can reverse the damage that human activity has caused to our environment. With funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), UN ... -
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Desertification Control Bulletin Number 12, 1985
(1985)Desertification Control is an international bulletin published at six-monthly intervals by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to disseminate information and knowledge on desertification problems and to present ... -
Desertification Control Bulletin Number 13, 1986: A Bulletin of World Events in the Control of Desertification Restoration of Degraded Lands and Reforestation
(1986)In this issue: Satellite remote sensing of desert spatial extent; Desertification in Botswana: progress towards a viable monitoring system; Soil at risk; Combating desertification in Zimbabwe; Desertification in India: ... -
Desertification Control Bulletin Number 14 1987: A Bulletin of World Events in the Control of Desertification Restoration of Degraded Lands and Reforestation
(1987)In this issue: Shifting Sands and Human Sorrow: Social response to drought and desertification; Camel Vs Cattle Pastoralism: stopping desert spread; African Drought and its Impacts: Revived interest in a recurrent phenomenon; ... -
Desertification Control Bulletin Number 15, 1987: A Bulletin of World Events in the Control of Desertification Restoration of Degraded Lands and Reforestation
(1987)In this issue: Desertification is a Human Tragedy: a foreword; The Tenth Anniversary of UNCOD; Reflections on the PACD; A Review of Progress since the UN Conference on Desertification; Seven Paths to Desertification; ... -
Desertification Control Bulletin Number 16, 1988: A Bulletin of World Events in the Control of Desertification Restoration of Degraded Lands and Reforestation
(1988)In this issue: Ground Water Resources: the Key to Combating Drought in Africa; Sustainable Development of Arid Lands through Irrigation; Some Agricultural Considerations in the Planning of Runoff Farming; Desert Encroachment; ...