Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those
Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa
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neutrality has the potential to act as an accelerator for achieving the Sustainable
Development Goals and as a catalyst for attracting sustainable development financing
and climate finance to implement the Convention,
Reaffirming its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which
is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports and
complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with
concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong political commitment to
address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels
for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity,
Bearing in mind its resolution 62/195 of 19 December 2007, in which it declared
the decade 2010–2020 as the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against
Desertification, and its resolution 64/201 of 21 December 2009, in which it
designated the secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or
Desertification, Particularly in Africa, as the focal point of the Decade, and invited
States parties to the Convention, observers and other relevant stakeholders to organize
activities to observe the Decade,
Welcoming the Paris Agreement, 2 and encouraging all its parties to fully
implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change 3 that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of
ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as soon as
possible,
Highlighting the synergies between the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement, and noting with concern the
scientific findings contained in the special report entitled Global Warming of 1.5°C
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
Looking forward to the climate summit called for by the Secretary-General, to
be held in New York in 2019, to accelerate global action on climate change,
Welcoming the United Nations strategic plan for forests 2017–2030, 4 and
acknowledging that all types of forests provide essential eco system services, such as
timber, food, fuel, fodder, non-wood products and shelter, as well as soil and water
conservation and clean air, that the sustainable management of forests and trees
outside forests is vital to the integrated implementation of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development and that all forests prevent land degradation and
desertification and reduce the risk of floods, landslides and avalanches, droughts,
sand and dust storms and other disasters,
Taking note of the Assessment Report on Land Degradation and Restoration 5 of
the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services, which reaffirms the global dimension of land degradation and reconfirms
the economic sense of urgent and concerted action and invest ment in avoiding land
degradation and restoring degraded lands,
Noting that combating desertification, land degradation and drought, including
through sustainable land management, can contribute to easing forced migration
flows influenced by a number of factors, including economic, social, security and
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Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
See resolution 71/285.
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (Bonn,
Germany, 2018).
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