Yasmine Fouad, Executive Secretary of the UNCCD, emphasized that COP17 has to mobilize finance at scale, shift investments to preparedness
COP16 was a pivotal moment particularly as it was held in Riyadh a region grappling with desertification, land degradation, and drought (DLDD
Land degradation is decline in the quality of land that diminishes its productivity and capacity to support ecosystems thus loss of vegetation