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3rd UNCCD Scientific Conference: Book of abstracts

… desertifi cation/land degradation and drought for poverty reduction and sustainable development: the contribution of … 248 DESERTIFICATION RISK ASSESSMENT IN MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEMS IN LATIN AMERICA … Drought, water and hydrology DROUGHT AS AN INTERNATIONAL DISASTER AND PLANT YIELD MODELS IN HUNGARY MÁRTON, LÁSZLÓ …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

The UNCCD: Laying the groundwork for future security (2014-2015)

… climate change and build resilience to drought; reduce the risk of forced migration and conflict over dwindling natural … response to drought disasters to proactive drought risk reduction based on early warning and preparedness – …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

The Land in Numbers

… Competition over water resources could cause a global 18% reduction in the availability of water for agriculture by … rest of the century. 38 • By 2050, the number of people at risk of hunger as a result of climate change is expected to … http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2012/03/natural-disaster-review-ferris 41. IFAD: Desertification, 2010, p.2, …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide

… 171 20.3 Additional reading 171 Article 21 | Prevention, Reduction and Control of Pollution 173 21.1 Commentary 173 … impacts on water service 203 Figure 6.1 | Water Security Risk Index 218 Figure 6.2 | International humanitarian laws … is little time left to avoid a widespread humanitarian disaster in the region. In this case, state A would likely be …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… 87 5.4.1. Nutrient and pollution reduction in the Black Sea “dead zone” … RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: MANAGING SYSTEMS AT RISK, at x (2011), … had violated human rights in connection with an ecological disaster at a gold mine that released high levels of sodium …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

White Paper - Regional Seas Governance

… RFB. Challenges for the implementation of EAF include the reduction of fragmentation in policies, sectors, institutions … - or ‘Constitution’ - for the oceans, that lessens the risk of international conflict and enhances stability and … strategy and action plan to address climate change and disaster risk management in fisheries and aquaculture, as …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Handbook for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

… of alternative technologies relating to the control and reduction of emissions of substances that deplete the ozone … that such limited information reported by parties puts at risk the current exclusion of process agent uses of … Protocol Noting with concern that there is a serious risk that, for some parties operating under paragraph 1 of …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere