WOCAT participation at the UNCCD COP15
The theme of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Abidjan was “Land. Life. Legacy: From scarcity to prosperity”. It is a call to action to ensure land, the lifeline on this planet, continues to benefit present and future generations.
Together with our partners, WOCAT contributed to various sessions at the Rio Conventions Pavilion and side events, presenting our latest land degradation and SLM tools and methods, findings, milestones, and project achievements.
Rio Conventions Pavilion Events
Guardians of our planet – the impact of women and indigenous groups to achieve LDN targets in Food Systems transformation.
Organized by WWF.
Role of the Gender Caucus in accelerating the implementation of the Gender Action Plan & way forward.
Organized by UNCCD.
Contribution in Session 3 “LDN: where we go from there”.
Organized by GEF.
Nature-based solutions and drought risk management. Contribution in session 3.
Organized by UNCCD Science Policy Interface.
Contribution in session: Adaptation and Mitigation - UNCCD SDS toolbox
Organized by: UNCCD, FAO
Cost and benefit data on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) - launch of a new GIZ/ELD-UNCCD-WOCAT tool.
Organized by GIZ/ELD.
Land Degradation Neutrality reporting, target setting and monitoring: Experiences from Ecuador, Turkey and Kazakhstan in co-developing and applying FAO-WOCAT tools at national level for LDN.
Organized by Ecuador.
Africa Pavilion
Life-giving lands: a roadmap for land restoration and food security in the grasslands, rangelands, and savannahs
Organized by: IUCN.
Side Events
FAO: State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW21) – Launching the full report.
Organized by FAO.
Scaling out Turkey's lessons learnt on combating land degradation: an overview of land degradation neutrality in Europe and Central Asia.
Organized by Turkey.
Evidence-based decision making for Life on Land - Scenarios for Integrated Land Use Planning.
Organized by GIZ.
Integrated approaches for SLM in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia.
Organized by IFAD.
Launch of the new UNCCD-WOCAT gender-responsive SLM tool and discussions with its developers and users
Organized by WOCAT.
Securing Land Tenure Rights to Achieve Land Degradation Neutrality, Land-based Adaptation, and Responses to Drought.
Organized by GIZ.
Establishing the SLM Progress Calculator as a recognized LDN monitoring tool to measure systemic progress along an SLM trajectory.
Organized by South Africa.
National implementation of the Tools4LDN workflow in Colombia.
Organized by Colombia.
Other events
Demo: Ηow to plan towards 2030 Land Degradation Targets? A one-hour hands-on session on the LUP4LDN tool.
Organized by SCiO.
A total of 36 decisions were taken at COP15. Five decisions highlight the role of WOCAT in supporting knowledge sharing, generating SLM good practices data and building capacity in collaboration with UNCCD and other partners.
Our team in Abidjan
Switzerland
Switzerland
Argentina
Netherlands
Senegal