Land Degradation: UN Calls For Partnerships To Speed-Up Action - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
September 10, 2019
TheUnited Nations, UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Muhammed, has called forinnovative partnerships to accelerate individual and collective actions toreverse land degradation and loss of bio-diversity affecting livelihoods globally.
Aminamade the call at the opening of the ministerial segment of the 14th Conferenceof Parties COP 14 of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification UNCCD.
Themeof the conference is: “Investing in Restoration to Unlock Opportunities.
TheUN top diplomat also called for urgent steps to speed up results of collectiveactions on all the issues relating to climate change.
India’sPrime Minister, Narendra Modi, opened the conference, with Ralph Gonsalves,Prime Minister of Saint-Vincent The Grenadines, in attendance.
Also,UNCCD Executive Secretary, Ibrahim Thiaw, said present and inter-generationalimpacts of land degradation underlined the plight of children being born whosefuture is not in the hands of the parents alone, but of humanity at large.