United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (UNCCD) is a plan to stop desertification and reduce the effects of lack of water in the action programs of countries. The plan uses long-term strategies supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements.

It fully launched in December 1996. It is the only international body in the world with legal power trying to stop people from destroying forests.

To help make UNCCD and its strategies popular, 2006 was declared "International Year of Deserts and Desertification".Stringer, LC (2008) Reviewing the international year of deserts and Desertification 2006: What contribution towards combating global desertification and implementing the united nations convention to combat desertification?, j.jaridenv, 72(11), pp2065-2074. doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2008.06.010.

Ibrahim Thiaw has been the Under Secretary General of the United Nations and UNCCD Executive Secretary since 2019.

 State parties 
All UN member states, the Cook Islands, Niue, and the State of Palestine. have agreed to be part of the UNCCD.

On 28 March 2013, Canada left the UNCCD but joined again on 21 December 2016, and was officially part of the UNCCD again on 21 March 2017.

 Conference of the Parties 
The Conference of the Parties (COP) ensures that action is taken on the plans of UNCCD. The first five sessions of the COP were held annually from 1997 to 2001. From 2001 sessions were held every two years.

 List of COP 
COPDateCityRemarkCOP 129 September to 10 October 1997Rome (Italy)COP 230 November to 11 December 1998Dakar (Senegal)COP 315 to 26 November 1999Recife (Brazil)COP 411 to 22 December 2000Bonn (Germany)COP 51 to 12 October 2001Geneva (Switzerland)COP 625 August to 5 September 2003Havana (Cuba)COP 717 to 28 October 2005Nairobi (Kenya)COP 83 to 14 September 2007Madrid (Spain)COP 921 September to 2 October 2009Buenos Aires (Argentine)COP 1010 to 20 October 2011Changwon (South Korea)COP 1116 to 27 September 2013Windhoek (Namibia)COP 1212 to 23 October 2015Ankara (Turkey)COP 136 to 16 September 2017Ordos City (China)COP 142 to 13 September 2019New Delhi (India)Adoption of The New Delhi Declaration: Investing in Land and Unlocking OpportunitiesCOP 159 to 20 May 2022Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)COP 162 to 13 December 2024Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)

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