Author: Michael Brüntrup

UNCCD COP 16: Another setback for multilateral environmental and resource protection

A Scene at the UNCCD COP16, Riyadh 2024. Photo by Aris Sanjaya/CIFOR-ICRAF, www.cifor-icraf.org/event/cifor-icraf-at-unccd-cop16/

Oops, it’s happened again: after the CBD, an important negotiation process has now also failed in the UNCCD, known in Germany as the Desertification Convention – a multilateral agreement to combat the consequences of drought. …