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Journée mondiale de lutte contre la désertification et la sécheresse 2025
Desertification, along with climate change and the loss of biodiversity, were identified as the greatest challenges to sustainable development during the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Two years later, the General Assembly established the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), a legally binding international agreement linking environment and development to sustainable land management, and declared 17 June “World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought” (A/RES/49/115). This day, also known as “Desertification and Drought Day”, is observed every year to promote public awareness of international efforts to combat desertification.
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
Desertification, along with climate change and the loss of biodiversity, were identified as the greatest challenges to sustainable development during the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.
Two years later, in 1994, the General Assembly established the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the sole legally binding international agreement linking environment and development to sustainable land management, and declared 17 June « World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought » by its resolution A/RES/49/115.
The Role of Geneva
Various international organizations in Geneva – listed below in alphabetical order – are engaged in combating desertification and droughts.
Links
- Global drought snapshot 2023: The need for immediate action | UNCCD | 2023
- Drought and Water Scarcity | Global Water Partnership and World Meteorological Organization | 2022
- Drought in Numbers | UNCCD | 2022
- GAR Special Report on Drought 2021 | UNDRR | 2021
- Desertification. In: Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems | IPCC | 2019
- Land Degradation Neutrality for biodiversity conservation: How healthy land safeguards nature | UNCCD | December 2019
- World Atlas of Desertification | European Union | 2018
- Assessment Report on Land Degradation and Restoration | IPBES | 2018
- Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality by 2030 | IUCN
- Desertification and land degradation | FAO
- The FAO Drought Portal | FAO
- World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought | United Nations
- World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought – What we can do | United Nations
- Climate, drought and desertification | World Meteorological Organization | 1997