The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Nations Conference to Fight Desertification (UNCCD) signed an settlement paving the best way for the 16th session of the Conference’s Convention of the Events (COP16) in Riyadh from 2-13 December 2024.
The Riyadh COP16 would be the largest-ever assembly of UNCCD’s 197 Events, the primary to be held within the Center East area and the most important multilateral convention ever hosted by Saudi Arabia. 2024 additionally marks the 30th anniversary of the UNCCD, one of many three main environmental treaties generally known as the Rio Conventions, alongside local weather change and biodiversity.
On the signing ceremony in Riyadh immediately, Eng. Abdulrahman Abdulmohsen AlFadley, Saudi Minister of Setting, Water and Agriculture and COP16 President, stated: “The internet hosting of the convention (COP16) within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia displays the dedication of the sensible management to environmental safety on the nationwide, regional, and worldwide ranges. Moreover, Saudi Arabia launched a number of groundbreaking environmental initiatives, such because the Saudi Inexperienced Initiative and the Center East Inexperienced Initiative.”
UNCCD Govt Secretary Ibrahim Thiaw stated: “As we speak, we’re dropping fertile lands at an alarming fee, jeopardizing world stability, prosperity and sustainability. The Riyadh COP16 should mark a turning level in the best way we deal with our most valuable useful resource—land—and collectively sort out the worldwide drought emergency.”
In response to UNCCD information, as much as 40 per cent of the world’s land is degraded, affecting half of humanity and with dire penalties for our local weather, biodiversity and livelihoods. If present tendencies proceed, restoring 1.5 billion hectares of land by 2030 will probably be mandatory to attain a land-degradation-neutral world.
Droughts are hitting extra typically and more durable all around the world—up by 29 per cent since 2000—pushed by local weather change but in addition the best way we handle our land. One-quarter of the world’s inhabitants is already affected by droughts, with each three out of 4 folks all over the world projected to face water shortage by 2050.
The Riyadh COP16 will deal with mobilizing governments, companies and communities worldwide to speed up motion on land restoration and drought resilience as a cornerstone of meals, water and vitality safety.
The 2-week occasion will function a high-level section, in addition to related occasions together with the Gender Caucus and the Enterprise for Land Discussion board.
Happening in probably the most water-scarce area and one that’s severely affected by desertification and land degradation, the Riyadh COP16 will showcase efforts underway in Saudi Arabia, the Center East area and past in the direction of a inexperienced transition based mostly on sustainable land stewardship.
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