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Media
Advisory
Chronic Land
Degradation:
UN to Publish
Comprehensive
Global Land
Outlook
2 Report
Wednesday,
27 April
2022
A new report from the
United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification (UNCCD), to be released Wednesday,
27 April 2022, offers both stark warnings and
hundreds of practical ways to effect local,
national and regional land and ecosystem
restoration.
UNCCD’s
evidence-based flagship Global
Land Outlook
2 (GLO2) report, five
years in development with 21 partner
organizations, and with over 1,000 references, is
the most comprehensive consolidation of
information on the topic ever
assembled.
It offers an
overview of unprecedented breadth that includes
new analyses of various future land scenarios and
the potential contributions of land restoration
investments to climate change mitigation,
biodiversity conservation, poverty reduction,
human health and other key sustainable development
goals.
Report embargo:
Wednesday, 27 April
2022
09:00 US EDT / 13:00 GMT / 14:00
UK Summer Time / 15:00 CEST
(check local
time here)
GLO2
is being released shortly before
the UNCCD’s 15th session of the
Conference of Parties opens in Abidjan, Côte
d'Ivoire (COP15, 9-20
May, www.unccd.int/cop15).
The
first GLO edition in 2017 underscored the
wide-ranging drivers, risks, and impacts of
persistent land degradation, which have
intensified considerably in the last five years –
increasingly evident in the deterioration of human
health and stable livelihoods.
The
new report sets out the rationale, enabling
conditions, and diverse pathways by which
countries and communities can design and implement
a customized land restoration agenda.
Advance access to
the GLO2 report and a summary for decision makers,
will be available next
week.
Advance
embargoed interviews with report authors and
officials are also
available.
A high-level
virtual launch will be followed by a press
conference Wednesday,
27 April 2022
The
press conference will begin 27 April
2022 at 09:00 US EDT / 13:00 GMT / 14:00 UK Summer
Time / 15:00 CEST (check local time here) To register for
the press conference, and to receive the advance
embargoed media materials, please
email the following to GLO2L...@unccd.int
- Media
organization
- First
Name
- Last
Name
- Position
- Email
- Telephone
- City
- Country
A formal
launch of GLO2 will take place
Tuesday, 10 May 2022, during the high-level
segment of the UNCCD’s 15th
Conference of Parties (COP15, 9-20
May), Abidjan, Côte
d'Ivoire.
COP15
programme, registration and other media
information: https://www.unccd.int/cop15
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The UNCCD, established
in 1994, is the only legally binding framework
set up to address desertification and the
effects of drought. There are 197 Parties to the
Convention, including 196 country Parties and
the European Union. The Convention aims to
mitigate the impact of land degradation by
uniting governments, scientists, policymakers,
the private sector and communities around a
shared vision to restore and manage the world’s
land, and to ensure the sustainability of the
planet and the prosperity of future
generations. | | |
Copyright ©
2017* United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification*, All rights
reserved.
For more information on the
Press Release, contact
Wagaki Wischnewski
Public
Information and Media Officer
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022
7:06 PM
Subject: UN to Publish
Comprehensive Global Land Outlook 2
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