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[Interview] “Avoiding the risk of land degradation is fundamental to any response to climate change”

Barron Joseph Orr, lead scientist at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), is at the forefront of the UN body’s efforts to tackle land degradation.

X Regional Meeting of the Latin American and the Caribbean country Parties to the Convention to Combat Desertification

29 - 31 August 2005, Saõ Luís, Brazil

World Soil Day 2020

5 December 2020, Rome, Italy

World Soil Day 2019

5 December 2019, Rome, Italy

World Soil Day 2018

5 December 2018, Rome, Italy

World Soil Day 2017

5 December 2017, Rome, Italy

World Soil Day 2015

5 December 2015, Rome, Italy

World Soil Day

5 December 2021, Bonn, Germany

World Soil Day

5 December 2022, Bonn, Germany

World Soil Day

5 December 2023, Bonn, Germany

World Soil Day

5 December 2024, Rome, Italy

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2021: "Restoration. Land. Recovery. We build back better with Healthy Land"

17 June 2021, Online, Bonn, Germany

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2019

17 June 2019, Bonn, Germany

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2018: "Land has true value – Invest in it" (https://www2.unccd.int/actions/17-june-world-day-combat-desertification)

17 June 2018, Bonn, Germany

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

17 June 2022, Bonn, Germany

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

17 June 2023, Bonn, Germany

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

17 June 2024, Bonn, Germany

World Day to Combat Desertification 2017 (WDCD)

17 June 2017, Bonn, Germany

World Day to Combat Desertification

17 June 2004, Bonn, Germany

World Day to Combat Desertification

17 June 2009, Multiple Venues

World Day to Combat Desertification

17 June 2011

World Day to Combat Desertification

17 June 2013, Mulitple Venues

World Day to Combat Desertification

17 June 2014

World Day to Combat Desertification

17 June 2015, Bonn, Germany

Workshop on Challenges for Drylands in the New Millennium: A Cross-Cutting Approach for Assessment

12 - 15 August 2003, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Workshop "Biodiversity and the Oil & Gas Industry in Arid Environments: North Africa and the Middle East"

5 April 2006, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

When the soil asks for help

It helps biodiversity to recover. It locks away the atmospheric carbon warming the Earth, slowing climate change. It can also lessen the impacts of climate change and underpin a green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wetlands are among our most valuable ecosystems. The values of benefits provided by wetlands, per unit area, have been consistently shown to be orders of magnitude higher than for other ecosystems, with the major benefit delivered through improved water security.

West Africa Regional Workshop of the UN-Water Initiative “Capacity Development to Support National Drought Management Policies”

4 - 7 May 2015, Accra, Ghana

Webinar on managing biodiversity as a moving target, titled "Conservation when nothing stands still: Dryland cases", on 27 January 2015, at 3 p.m. GMT

Reference: SCBD/SAM/SK/AC/84240 (2015-005)
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points

Webinar on land-based jobs for youth: Building your business and seizing opportunities (webinar #3)

2 September 2021, Virtual, Bonn, Germany

Webinar on increasing awareness of soil biodiversity and carbon, titled "Learning from wetlands – the case for dry soils", on 12 February 2015

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/SK/AC/84276 (2015-009)
To: CBD NFPs and SBSTTA FPs of Africa

Water Harvesting and its importance to Dry Lands and relevance to biodiversity sustenance.

The A.P. State Biodiversity Board and the A.P. State Ministry for Minor Irrigation wishes to impress the need for the conservation and use of the Rain Water which should be harvested for sustaining agriculture and in maintaining biological diversity in Dry Land areas.

Recommendation XI/7

Vision, mission and goals of the programmes of work on the biological diversity of dry and sub-humid lands, mountains and forest biological diversity

UNEP/GEF Project: "Promoting Best Practices for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity of Global Significance in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones"

27 - 30 August 2003, Rabat, Morocco

UNEP/CBD/WS-Syn.LAC/1/4

Report of the Regional Synergy Workshop for Latin America and the Caribbean on the Biological Diversity of Agro-Ecosystems within Dry and Sub-Humid Lands

UNEP/CBD/WS-Syn.LAC/1/3

Obstacles to the Achievement of the 2010 Target in Agro-Ecosystems within Dry and Sub-Humid Lands

UNEP/CBD/WS-Syn.LAC/1/1/ADD1

Annotations to the Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/WS-Syn.LAC/1/1

Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/WS-Syn.Afr/1/6

Report of the regional workshop

UNEP/CBD/WS-Syn.Afr/1/4

Opportunities for Synergies in Planning and Implementing Projects in the Framework of the Programmes of Work on Biological Diversity of Dry and Sub-Humid Lands and Agricultural biological diversity

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/8/INF/2

Final report of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on the Biological Diversity of Dry and Sub-Humid Lands

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/8/INF/10

Joint work programme on the biological diversity of dry and sub-humid lands between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/8/10

Dry and sub-humid lands Biodiversity: Matters requested by the Conference of the Parties in paragraphs 5 and 6 of its decision V/23 and decision VI/4

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/7/4

Reports: Biological diversity of dry and sub-humid lands<br>Progress report on the implementation of the programme of work

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/5/9

Item 4.1.1 of the Provisional Agenda <br> Biological Diversity of Dryland, Mediterranean, Arid, Semi-Arid, Grassland and Savannah Ecosystems: Options for the Development of a Programme of Work

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/4/7

Item 4.4 of the Provisional Agenda <br> Assessment of the Status and Trends and Options for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Terrestrial Biological Diversity: Dryland, Mediterranean, Arid, Semi-Arid, Grassland and Savannah Ecosystems

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/14/INF/35

Compilation of Experiences in the Field of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, Soil Management and Pastoralism in Dry and Sub-Humid Lands

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/14/6/ADD2

Proposed Elements for a Joint Work Programme between the Three Rio Conventions on Biodiversity, Climate Change and Land Degradation

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/14/6/ADD1

In-Depth Review of the Work On Biodiversity and Climate Change (Addendum: Integration of Climate Change Impacts and Response Activities within the Programme of Work On the Biodiversity of Dry and Sub-Humid Lands)