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  1. Library Resource
    Rapports et recherches
    décembre, 2009
    Global

    Established in 1994, the United Nations to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is the sole 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 drylands, where some of the most vulnerable ecosystems and peoples can be found.

  2. Library Resource
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    décembre, 2009
    Global

    The Kyoto Protocol negotiated in the mid-1990s to address climate change adaptation and mitigation will be replaced by a post-Kyoto agreement in 2012. The new agreement under negotiation needs to seal the policy gaps in adaptation and mitigation that were omitted or excluded from Kyoto on account of scientific uncertainties. Particular attention needs to be given to the potential of land in all its dimensions considering its high capacity to store carbon. Land stores twice as much organic carbon as vegetation and the atmosphere combined.

  3. Library Resource
    African Drylands Commodity Atlas cover image
    Rapports et recherches
    janvier, 2009
    Afrique

    Desertification is defined as land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities. More than one third of the surface of the earth consists of drylands. In terms of population, one out of every five people of the world live in already degraded or desertification-prone drylands. These people include many of the world’s poorest, most marginalized, and politically weak citizens. For instance, nearly 325 million people in the African continent live in drylands.


  4. Library Resource
    Climate change in the African drylands: Options and opportunities for adaptation and mitigation cover image
    Manuels et directives
    Rapports et recherches
    novembre, 2009
    Global

    The drylands of Africa, exclusive of hyper-arid zones, occupy about 43 per cent of the continent, and are home to a rapidly growing population that currently stands at about 325 million people. Dry zones, inclusive of hyper-arid lands, cover over 70 per cent of the continent’s terrestrial surface. Outside of the cities many dryland inhabitants are either pastoralists, sedentary or nomadic, or agro-pastoralists, combining livestock-rearing and crop production where conditions allow.

  5. Library Resource
    Land Matters: Enhancing Synergies among the Rio Conventions on Land Use and Sustainable Land Management cover image
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    janvier, 2009
    Global

    Land use practices contribute to both the emission and sequestration of greenhouse gases. Land is where the struggle to adapt to climate change will be won or lost by the poorest of the poor. Land science is a priority area of collaboration between UNCCD and UNFCCC, if land-climate insights and actions are to be optimized. It can also foster the synergies continually called for by Parties to the three sister Rio Conventions.

  6. Library Resource
    Way Forward After CST 9 cover image
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    janvier, 2009
    Global

    Until now, the international community has made tireless efforts to get public attention and political action on issues of desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD) with limited success.


    Thus, the mobilization of political will and arousal of public interest and attention around the issue of climate change in particular puzzled activists and decision-makers alike, at least in the DLDD community.


  7. Library Resource
    Mitigating Climate Change in Drylands – The Case for Financing Carbon Sequestration cover image
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    janvier, 2009
    Global

    Drylands have the potential to play a big role in climate mitigation and, in doing so, to deliver significant co-benefits

  8. Library Resource
    Land: a tool for climate change mitigation cover image
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    janvier, 2009
    Global

    The Kyoto Protocol negotiated in the mid-1990s to address climate change adaptation and mitigation will be replaced by a post-Kyoto agreement in 2012. The new agreement under negotiation needs to seal the policy gaps in adaptation and mitigation that were omitted or excluded from Kyoto on account of scientific uncertainties. Particular attention needs to be given to the potential of land in all its dimensions considering its high capacity to store carbon. Land stores twice as much organic carbon as vegetation and the atmosphere combined.


  9. Library Resource
    Land: a tool for climate change adaptation cover image
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    janvier, 2009
    Global

    The Kyoto Protocol negotiated in the mid-1990s to address climate change adaptation and mitigation will expire in 2012. This protocol represents one of the two milestones that the multilateral negotiation of climate change has delivered. Ten years after its adoption, the climate change negotiators decided upon the second largest milestone when they approved the Bali Action Plan at their 2007 meeting in Bali.


  10. Library Resource
    UNCCD Factsheet: An introduction to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification cover image
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    Matériels institutionnels et promotionnels
    janvier, 2009
    Global

    The Convention offers new hope in the struggle against desertification Over the past decades, the problem of land degradation in dryland regions has continued to worsen. The Convention promotes a fresh new approach to managing dryland ecosystems and - just as important - to managing development aid flows.

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