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The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (UNCCD) is a Convention to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought through national action programs that incorporate long-term strategies supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements.
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Displaying 491 - 495 of 585Mitigating Climate Change in Drylands – The Case for Financing Carbon Sequestration
Drylands have the potential to play a big role in climate mitigation and, in doing so, to deliver significant co-benefits
Mitigating Climate Change in Drylands – The Case for Financing Carbon Sequestration
Drylands have the potential to play a big role in climate mitigation and, in doing so, to deliver significant co-benefits
Mitigating Climate Change in Drylands – The Case for Financing Carbon Sequestration
Drylands have the potential to play a big role in climate mitigation and, in doing so, to deliver significant co-benefits
Land: a tool for climate change mitigation
The Kyoto Protocol negotiated in the mid-1990s to address climate change adaptation and mitigation will be replaced by a post-Kyoto agreement in 2012. The new agreement under negotiation needs to seal the policy gaps in adaptation and mitigation that were omitted or excluded from Kyoto on account of scientific uncertainties. Particular attention needs to be given to the potential of land in all its dimensions considering its high capacity to store carbon. Land stores twice as much organic carbon as vegetation and the atmosphere combined.
Land: a tool for climate change adaptation
The Kyoto Protocol negotiated in the mid-1990s to address climate change adaptation and mitigation will expire in 2012. This protocol represents one of the two milestones that the multilateral negotiation of climate change has delivered. Ten years after its adoption, the climate change negotiators decided upon the second largest milestone when they approved the Bali Action Plan at their 2007 meeting in Bali.