Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious
Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa
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land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and
striving to achieve a land degradation-neutral world by 2030,
Reaffirming its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which
is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports and
complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with
concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong political commitment to
address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels
for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity,
Noting that in its decision 3/COP.14, 2 the Conference of the Parties to the
Convention invited parties that have committed to voluntary land degradation
neutrality targets to implement measures to accelerate the achievement thereof, by,
inter alia, creating an enabling environment for the achievement of land degradation
neutrality, including the responsible governance of land and tenure security, the
engagement of stakeholders and the improved access of smallholders to advisory and
financial services,
Noting also that combating desertification, land degradation and drought,
including through the sustainable management of natural resources, can contribute to
sustainable development for all and to easing displacement flows,
Bearing in mind its resolution 62/195 of 19 December 2007, in which it declared
the decade 2010–2020 as the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against
Desertification, and its resolution 64/201 of 21 December 2009, in which it designated
the secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those
Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in
Africa, as the focal point of the Decade, and invited States parties to the Convention,
observers and other relevant stakeholders to organize activities to observe the Decade,
Bearing in mind also its resolution 73/284 of 1 March 2019, in which it declared
the decade 2021–2030 as the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration,
Recalling the adoption of the 2018–2030 Strategic Framework of the
Convention, 3 including a new strategic objective on drought,
Reaffirming the Paris Agreement 4 and its early entry into force, encouraging all
its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change 5 that have not yet done so to deposit their
instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as
soon as possible,
Recognizing that climate change, unsustainable agricultural and forestry
practices and land degradation, inter alia, are major and growing drivers of
biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, and that conservation, restoration and
the sustainable use of biodiversity, and ecosystem functions and services, including
through nature-based solutions, contribute significantly to land degradation
neutrality, climate change adaptation and mitigation, disaster risk reduction and food
security and nutrition,
Noting with concern the findings of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy
Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services land degradation and restoration
assessment and its Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services,
the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contained in its
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See ICCD/COP(14)/23/Add.1.
ICCD/COP(13)/21/Add.1, decision 7/COP.13, annex.
Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
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