Q: What is/are the importance/importances of the ‘United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification’?
a) It aims to promote effective action through innovative national programmes and supportive inter-national partnerships.
b) It has a special/particular focus on South Asia and North Africa regions, and its Secretariat facilitates the allocation of major portion of financial resources to these regions.
c) It is committed to bottom-up approach, encouraging the participation of local people in combating the desertification.
The correct answer is 1 and 3 only.
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD):
- The UNCCD was founded in 1994.
- This is the first international agreement that links environmental protection, economic development, and sustainable land use.
- It is particularly committed to a bottom-up approach, encouraging the participation of local people in combating desertification and land degradation. Hence statement 3 is correct.
- The 195 parties to the convention cooperate to raise the standard of life for those who live in arid areas, preserve and increase soil and land productivity, and lessen the impact of drought.
- It aims to promote effective action through innovative local programmes and supportive international partnerships. Hence statement 1 is correct.
- The Convention focuses primarily on the drylands, which are composed of arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid regions and are home to some of the most vulnerable ecosystems and populations.
- The UNCCD is implemented through five regional annexes: Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern Mediterranean, and Africa (which is given precedence because it is there where desertification is most severe).
- There is no such provision that the secretariat facilitates the allocation of the major portion of financial resources to the South Asia and North Africa regions. Hence statement 2 is incorrect.
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