30/11/2021
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Riyadh, 30 November 2021 – The Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Abdulrahman Abdulmohsen AlFadley, and the UNCCD Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Mr. Ibrahim Thiaw, this morning signed a cooperation agreement between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and UNCCD to implement the G20 Global Initiative on Reducing Land Degradation and Enhancing the Conservation of Terrestrial Habitats.
The Initiative, adopted during the G20 Saudi Presidency in 2020, aims to realize the G20 leaders’ aspiration to halve degraded land by 2040. The agreement commits the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to provide financial support to implement the Initiative’s aspirations as laid out in annex (I) of the 2020 G20 Environment Ministers' Communique.
The terms include the G20’s aim to prevent, halt, and reverse the degradation of land on every continent, complement and support existing initiatives and avoid duplicating efforts. To this end, the G20 Global Initiative will work in tandem with existing multilateral initiatives, and add momentum to the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
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G20 Rome Leaders’ Declaration, 30-31 October 2021
Leaders’ declaration from the G20 Riyadh Summit, 21-22 November 2020
G20 Environment Ministers Communiqué, 16 September 2020
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原文来源：https://www.unccd.int/news-events/g20-race-reduce-land-degradation-begins-0
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