As a global hub for environmental governance, Geneva plays an important role in the global response to desertification, land degradation, and drought (DLDD). With leading organizations on environmental issues, nature conservation, water, health, human rights and many relevant areas of work, Geneva hosts a strong expertise to contribute to global processes tackling DLDD. From addressing the impacts and preventing the risks posed by this crisis on people and the planet to developing policies to halt DLDD, stakeholders from Geneva also play a role in making links to address other environmental crises.

Leading diplomats and international experts taking the floor at this event will highlight how international Geneva multilateral diplomacy system, with its numerous intergovernmental organizations, permanent governmental missions, NGOs, platforms, academic institutions, and other stakeholders, is engaged in the upcoming UNCCD COP16 and how it is actively tackling desertification, land degradation, and drought.

IOM will be present among these experts, presenting on how drought, land degradation and desertification, compounded by the effects of climate change, are driving displacement globally, identifying good practices and lessons learned to combat these events as drivers of migration, while showing potential to enhance migration’s adaptive potentials.

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