Marrakech Showcases Diverse Land Restoration, Agriculture Projects

Diverse events on the sidelines of the Marrakech Climate Change Conference highlighted initiatives to advance research, knowledge sharing, policy coherence and funding for land-based adaptation and mitigation.

These events featured: funding announcements for national land degradation neutrality (LDN) voluntary targets; a global initiative to protect peatlands; international research collaboration on sand and dust storms; climate-smart agriculture programmes; and new information tools to strengthen agriculture resilience and drylands restoration in Africa and Asia.

One year following the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 102 Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) have embarked on national processes to set voluntary targets to LDN, one of the targets under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15 (Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss). The 15th session of the UNCCD’s Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC), which took place in Nairobi, Kenya, in October 2015, highlighted their experiences to date.

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Paul Godard

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