{"id":127742,"date":"2021-08-21T13:02:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T07:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=127742"},"modified":"2021-08-21T13:02:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T07:32:34","slug":"united-nations-convention-to-combat-desertification-unccd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/united-nations-convention-to-combat-desertification-unccd\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>It was established in 1994<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0<strong>sole legally binding international agreement <\/strong>linking environment and development to sustainable land management.<\/li>\n<li>The Convention addresses specifically the arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, known as the dryland, where some of the most vulnerable ecosystems and peoples can be found<\/li>\n<li>The Convention\u2019s 197 parties work together to improve the living conditions for people in drylands, to maintain and restore land and soil productivity, and to mitigate the effects of drought.<\/li>\n<li>The UNCCD is particularly committed to a bottom-up approach, encouraging the participation of local people in combating desertification and land degradation.<\/li>\n<li>The UNCCD secretariat facilitates cooperation between developed and developing countries, particularly around knowledge and technology transfer for sustainable land management.<\/li>\n<li>The UNCCD collaborates closely with the other\u00a0<strong>two Rio Conventions<\/strong>&#8211; <strong>The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>India<\/strong> for the first time hosted the 14th session of the Conference of Parties <strong>(COP-14)<\/strong> of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in September 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was established in 1994 It is the\u00a0sole legally binding international agreement linking environment and development to sustainable land management. The Convention addresses specifically the arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, known as the dryland, where some of the most vulnerable ecosystems and peoples can be found The Convention\u2019s 197 parties work together to improve&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/united-nations-convention-to-combat-desertification-unccd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10330,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-127742","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}