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SECRETARIAT OF THE CONVENTION TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION
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LANDING CLIMATE CHANGEInternational Meeting "Integrate Development and Environment: Towards a New Model of Territorial
Governance“
ENEA Casaccia Research Headquarters
Grégoire de KalbermattenDES UNCCD
Casaccia, 04 December 2008
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The human surge
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Food demand
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Key constraints
•Declining fresh water supplies
•Shrinking land area/soil loss
•Nutrient losses and rising costs
•Growth in biofuels
•Declining agricultural R & D
•Biofuels impact
•Climate change impacts
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Water scarcity today
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Groundwater worries
•China – water tables falling by >3 metres /yr
•India – 26 million wells = 200 cu kms/year, levels falling by 2-3 metres/year
•USA – 70 cu kms/year – levels fallen by 100-200 m in Arizona
•Libya – ‘Great Man-Made River’ already falling
•Australia – groundwater levels falling / water is ‘double allocated’
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SECURING THE CONTINUUM
CLIMATE/SOIL/LAND/FOOD SECURITY
NOW
- Food riots in 37 countries, in some of which there is a growing risk of government failure
- 60% of all conflicts in the past 18 years have been driven, at their core, by disputes stemming from a natural resources scarcity factors related to land, water and food; forced migrations
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TOMORROW
- Sea fishing is forecast to collapse by 2040, throwing more demand onto land-based food protein
- Total world food demand is forecast to rise 110% by 2050
-Land degradation has not been assessed globally since 1992, but, by some estimates half of the arable land will be under threat of desertification by 2050
- Up to half the Earth may be in regular drought by the end of the century
Estimates by Prof. Julian Cribb, Julian Cribb & Associates, Tackling global food change and the
coming famine
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THUS
- The present challenge is to double world food output – using less land, far less water, far fewer nutrients and, with the prospect of less technology to do so, in the teeth of increasing drought
- By 2020s looming regional food shortages could precipitate refugee waves numbering in the hundreds of millions, leaving no country on Earth unaffected. If we wish to avoid potential wars, riots and refugee tsunamis, the only answer is to secure the continuum CLIMATE/SOIL/LAND/FOOD SECURITY.
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Being creative/responsive would include:
•Bringing market finance mechanism for adaptation/mitigation to bear on forest and land conservation;
•Ag.R+D. Soil Focus. A global effort helped by the UNCCD to promote conservation agriculture, low-input farming systems and put organic framing systems on a scientific footing;
•A 200% increase in water use efficiency in all crops;
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Soil degradation is an under-recognized threat to global well-being which will be aggravated by climate change
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DESERTIFICATION? Cf. Art 1 of the UNCCD
‘Desertification’ means land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors,
Including climatic variations and human activities:
- Prolonged drought
- Soil erosion caused by wind and/or water
- Human activities and habitation patterns
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- Deterioration of the physical, chemical and biological or economic properties of soil
- Long term loss of natural vegetation
• ‘land’ = the terrestrial bio-productive system i.e. Soil + Vegetation + Ecological and hydrological processes that operate within the system
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The 10 Year strategy of the UNCCD
The vision
The aim for the future is to forge a global partnership to reverse and prevent desertification/land degradation and to mitigate the effects of drought in affected areas in order to support poverty reduction and environmental sustainability.
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The strategic objectives of the UNCCD
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The mission
To provide a global framework to support the development and implementation of national and regional policies, programmes and measures to prevent, control and reverse desertification/land degradation and mitigate the effects of drought through scientific and technological excellence, raising public awareness, standard setting, advocacy and resource mobilization, thereby contributing to poverty reduction.
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The operational objectives of UNCCD
1: Advocacy, awareness raising and education
2: Policy framework
3: Science, technology and knowledge
4: Capacity-building
5: Financing and technology transfer
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The Secretariat’s Clusters of activities
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