[VIDEO] UNCCD, World bank, and partners advance the Great green wall at the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2021

September 03, 2021 — September 11, 2021

Marseille, France & online

At the IUCN World Conservation Congress, the world collaborates to set priorities and drive conservation and sustainable development action. IUCN’s unique and inclusive membership gives Congress a decisive mandate as it is not solely government or non-government, but both together.

A session was held to highlight the multiple benefits of investment in soil health beyond acting as carbon sinks, of sustainable landscapes, their simultaneous contribution to the objectives of 3 UN conventions: UNFCCC, UNCBD, and UNCCD, and explore possibilities for effective public-private collaboration, a key for transformative action.

Accelerating Land Restoration in the Sahel through Media – Media network for the Great Green Wall launched

[13th August 2021, Bonn, Germany] Media practitioners, broadcasters, representatives from print media and multimedia producers from the 11 Great Green Wall countries participated in a 2 day virtual capacity building workshop with the theme – Media as agents of change to accelerate land restoration in the Sahel, on the 12th – 13th August 2021.

Coordinating actors, monitoring progress and accelerating actions towards 2030

Together with the African Union (www.au.int), the Pan-African Agency for the Great Green Wall and with support from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (www.unccd.int), we are working with partners like Tree Aid (www.treeaid.org ) to make this ambitious project a reality.

Across all of our projects, we are restoring land, and creating green jobs in communities where we work. We are already seeing changes in communities where we work and providing future of jobs and improved iivelihoods for millions of people living in poverty.