A major highlight of the World Conservation Congress! #WCC2025 saw the launch of our new film, Living Desert, featuring our Goodwill Ambassadors at #Cop16Riyadh.
Big thanks to our partners #IUCN, Royal Commission for #AlUla & #InTent.Onwards to #COP17 in Mongolia.
Join us, together with the International Drought Resilience Alliance (IDRA),
#Cop16Riyadh, and IDRA co-chairs #Senegal and #Spain at #FfD4 for a high-level event on unlocking cooperation for #DroughtResilience.
🗓️ 2 July | 14:30 CET
📍 Room SE3, FIBES II, Sevilla
www.unccd.int/events/other...
Riyadh Global Drought Resilience Partnership (RGDRP) : Announced at COP16 in December 2024, the RGDRP aims to help countries shift from reactive drought response to proactive preparedness through early warning systems, improved land and water management, and financial tools. The Partnership brings together governments, financial institutions, and technical partners to coordinate efforts and build resilience. It complements initiatives like the Middle East Green Initiative and leverages tools from the International Drought Resilience Alliance and the Integrated Drought Management Programme.
Happening Now: Global partners meet in Cologne, Germany, to launch the #Riyadh Global #Drought Resilience Partnership's operational framework.
Announced at #Cop16Riyadh in Dec 2024, this is a major step to shift countries from crisis response to proactive drought preparedness.
Reflecting on UNCCD #COP16
7 key outcomes, $12B pledged, and a call for global action.
CIFOR-ICRAF’s science, partnerships, and voices were at the heart of #COP16Riyadh.
Read more on the road from Riyadh to Mongolia ➡️ bit.ly/4hloDC3
#TreesPeoplePlanet #ForestsMatter
🧵This week’s statement from the incoming #COP30 presidency emphasised the importance of incorporating lessons learned from the Biodiversity (#CBD #COP16) and Desertification (UNCCD’s #COP16Riyadh) COPs into the #UNFCCC COP processes that will occur later this year in the Brazilian city of Belém.
🌱Ahead of #COP16Riyadh, @raquelmunayer.bsky.social & @hectormoralesm.bsky.social conducted, in partnership with @fao.org, trainings for @unccd.bsky.social focal points to support development of core skills + deliver tools for global drought policy negotiation.
Find out more: youtu.be/JlKk6BzbEfw?...
Sigue #EnDirecto la jornada 'Nuestra tierra, nuestro futuro', con @miteco.gob.es @casa-africa.bsky.social
Sobre los efectos de la desertificación, la #COP16Riyadh y #ProyectosPRTR de esta temática
#COP16Riyadh marked a turning point for rangelands and pastoralists, highlighting their vital role in combating desertification and managing land sustainably.
Discover how this new focus aims to protect livelihoods and ecosystems #UNited4Land #IYRP2026:
The world needs $1 billion daily to restore over 1 billion hectares of degraded land and build resilience to drought by 2030
Our report, Investing in Land's Future, launched at #COP16Riyadh, highlights the urgency of closing a $278 billion annual funding gap. https://buff.ly/42aXii1
#UNited4Land
In case you missed it, the @enb.iisd.org summary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification's #COP16Riyadh is now available for your reading pleasure. Check out what my team and I worked on for over two weeks!!
🔵 77.6% of global lands are showing a drying trend
🔵 Upto 40% of the world’s land is degraded
🔵 Affecting around 3.2 billion people
Healthy, sustainably managed land is central to human wellbeing.
Read our #COP16Riyadh reflections by @melissadekock.bsky.social :
While #COP16Riyadh delegates did not adopt a decision to negotiate a framework or protocol on #drought, many decisions were adopted, including on gender, agriculture, civil society participation, rangelands and pastoralists, land tenure, and science
#UNCCDCOP16 #land #desertification
"Étranglé par leur honte, pas une seule délégation n’a osé témoigner au micro de @rfi.fr, seul média présent jusqu’au terme de ces négociations."
rfi.fr/fr/environne... #climat #COP16Riyadh
📰Dans @liberation.fr, notre experte Sandra Rulliere, rappelle les enjeux discutés lors de la #COP16Riyadh 🌏 : assurer la sécurité alimentaire sans dégrader les terres, garantir à tous & toutes un accès au foncier & intensifier l'agroécologie.
À lire ici ➡️ bit.ly/4iACjLf
@cirad.bsky.social
Saudi-hosted UN summit fails to agree on how to tackle drought
- "tensions emerged over Saudi refusal to include any reference to climate"
#climatecrisis #COP16Riyadh
@UNCCD
www.ft.com/content/6aca... via @ft
#Environment: What's Up in #GENeva from 16 Dec - 5 Jan?
✅ Faith & #TriplePlanetaryCrisis | #GEN25
✅ UN #BindingTreaty #TNC
✅ #WTO #FisheriesSubsidies
✅ #IPBES11 & #COP16Riyadh Outcomes
✅ #SeasonsGreetings
✅ & more
Check events, #jobs, suggestions & more ▶️ tiny.cc/GEN16Dec24-5...
At UN Convention to Combat Desertification #COP16Riyadh, nations made significant progress in laying the groundwork for a future global drought regime.
More on the outcomes ⬇️
Following the close of #COP16Riyadh it is clear: land is life.
We cannot address climate change, nature loss or food security without healthy and productive land.
39 new decisions will help tackle land degradation challenges globally.
Find out more from UNCCD: www.unccd.int/news-stories...
White-eared Bulbul
Laughing Dove
Myna
Riyadh sunset
Positive photo day 1734: Today we had a short break from our
@enb.iisd.org summary of UNCCD #COP16Riyadh and I actually found a place to walk in this city of cars. And I found some #birds! And the sunset! One more day and then home. Birds: White-eared Bulbul, Laughing Dove, Myna.
Positive photo day 1733: Today was summary day -- we spent twelve hours writing and editing the
@enb.iisd.org summary of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.
UNCCD #COP16Riyadh So here is the view from my hotel.
Positive photo day 1732: When I arrived in Saudi Arabia the moon was no more than a sliver and now it is almost full. On Friday, Saudis continued to celebrate getting the 2034 World Cup, and UNCCD #COP16Riyadh finally came to a close. Now to write the @enb.iisd.org summary report...
Despite Herculean efforts by Saudi Arabia, @UNCCD parties were unable to agree to begin talks on a new drought framework or legally binding protocol
Yet, many other strong decisions were adopted before #COP16Riyadh was gaveled to a close
#UNCCDCOP16 #drought #land
At #COP16Riyadh, President Abdulrahman Abdulmohsen AlFadley, Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture, Saudi Arabia, gaveled the largest-ever UNCCD COP to a close at 2:05 am on Saturday, 14 December 2024. #OurLandOurFuture #UNited4Land
At UNCCD #COP16Riyadh, the Committee of the Whole resumed at 1:30 am on Saturday morning. Parties were unable to adopt a substantive decision on negotiating a #drought framework or protocol, and decided to try to adopt a decision at COP17 in Mongolia. #OurLandOurFuture
At UNCCD #COP16Riyadh, the Plenary convened at 8:26 pm to briefly to elect officers, adopt decisions and adopt the Riyadh Political Declaration. The Plenary suspended at 8:40 pm to await the outcomes of consultations on #drought & adopt the budget #OurLandOurFuture #UNited4Land
At UNCCD #COP16Riyadh, the Committee of the Whole began at 7:10 pm & adopted 15 decisions including on synergies, #migration, land tenure, sand and dust storms, #gender, and grasslands and rangelands. They suspended at 7:40 pm, awaiting final resolution on #drought & the budget. #OurLandOurFuture
At "Regenerative Agriculture and Nature-based, Science-backed Innovation" at #COP16Riyadh, speakers explored how—contrary to common perceptions—#regenerativeagriculture isn’t less profitable than chemical-based #farming
#land #nature #agriculture
At "Locally Led Landscape Management for Land Degradation Neutrality, Sustainable Development and Socio-Ecological Resilience" at #COP16Riyadh, reps from the Maldives, Sierra Leone, Peru and Morocco shared stories of small grants for land restoration
#UNCCDCOP16 #land #landrestoration @undp.org
One Water Summit: laying the groundwork for action ahead of the UN Water Conference in 2026
🌏Last week, the #OneWaterSummit took place at #COP16Riyadh!
Ahead of the UN Water 2026 conference, Lionel Goujon, our Water & Sanitation head of division, highlights the global water governance deficit.
Read more 👀👉 bit.ly/3DqaLI8
At UNCCD #COP16Riyadh, the waiting game continues as informal consultations on #drought are ongoing and some are worried there may not be agreement on either a protocol or framework. All other decisions are agreed and ready to be adopted. #OurLandOurFuture #UNited4Land
