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Guyana to host UN Meeting on Land Degradation
World Governments will be meeting in Guyana in January 2019 to discuss the impact of land degradation on people and ecosystems. The meeting will take place from January 28-30 at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, during the Seventeenth Session of the Committee for the review of Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 17).
The convention in question is the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (UNCCD). The convention was signed in 1994 to mitigate the effects of drought, through national action programmes that incorporate long-term strategies supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements.
This meeting will be the first of its kind since the adoption of the UNCCD convention.
In 2009, scientists recommended, and governments agreed on, 11 indicators to use to measure land degradation. Mandatory to these discussions is the proportion of the population living above the poverty line, which measures the impact on people, and the change in land cover, which measures the impact on land.
The indicator on land cover was refined in 2014, and now measures land cover, soil organic content and net primary productivity. It was made one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators of Life on Land in 2015 because achieving it – land degradation neutrality – will ensure that there is stability in the amount and quality of land resources necessary to support life on Earth by 2030, and onwards.
CRIC will consider, in depth, this and other emerging issues such as drought management, halting forced migration in degraded areas negatively impacted by climate change and progress promoting gender equality.
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