At the 13th meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification held from 6-16 September in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, Countries agree on a landmark 2030 strategy to stop losing land. A third of the world’s land is degraded. By the end of the Conference, 113 countries had agreed to specify concrete targets, with clear indicators, to reverse degradation and rehabilitate more land. Countries also agreed on a new global roadmap to address land degradation.
The new UNCCD 2018-2030 Strategic Framework is the most comprehensive global commitment to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) in order to restore the productivity of vast swathes of degraded land, improve the livelihoods of more than 1.
Countries agree on a landmark 2030 strategy to stop losing land
