*[Enwl-eng] COP27 Summit to launch international drought resilience alliance
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COP27 Summit to launch international drought resilience alliance, Egypt.
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World Leaders Launching International Drought
Resilience Alliance at COP 27
a.. Monday, 7 November 2022, Sharm el-Sheikh
Climate Change Conference, Egypt
b.. 17:00-18:00 (local time) / 15:00-16:00
UTC / 16:00-17:00 CET/10:00-11:00 US EDT
c.. (check local time here)
d.. The event will be livestreamed.
e.. Advance interviews are available,
contact: press at unccd.int
f.. Audiovisual materials are available,
including:
g.. High-resolution b-roll of northern Kenya
drought: https://bit.ly/3OEs5KD 2) https://bit.ly/38t0Pyo (credit: UNCCD)
h.. Land restoration footage from Great
Green Wall: https://bit.ly/3SWBVJG (credit UNCCD and Makewaves).
i.. Drought footage from Spain:
https://bit.ly/3CZNCKa (credit Ministry of Environment, Spain)
j.. Photos and captions:
https://bit.ly/3rRSpY2
Leaders to Launch International Drought
Resilience Alliance at COP 27
Bonn, 24 October 2022 -- World leaders will
launch a new alliance to boost drought resilience on Monday, 7 November
2022, at the Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Change Conference in Egypt.
The high-level launch event, jointly convened
by Senegal and Spain, titled, International Drought Resilience Alliance,
will take place from 17:00-18:00hrs local time.
World leaders recognize the urgent need to
shift drought management approaches from the current emergency response to
resilience. The Alliance is envisioned as a collaborative platform to rally
political momentum and trigger actions that support countries, cities, and
communities to enable this shift and significantly reduce their
vulnerability, impact and exposure to extreme drought.
President of the Government of Spain Pedro
Sánchez Pérez-Castejón announced at the 77th session of the United Nations
General Assembly in September 2022 that creating the alliance is “a specific
solution for the United Nations” to the impacts of climate change.
“Together with Senegal, we will support the
creation of an ‘International Alliance for Drought Resilience’ to promote
innovation, technology transfer and the mobilization of resources to combat
drought in countries exposed to this threat,” President Sánchez said.
President Macky Sall of Senegal said “When the
State is in danger, when it is destabilized in any way, the foundations of
community fracture making way for chaos. We all – governments, citizens and
civil society – have an obligation not to saw off the branch we are sitting
on.”
“I am thinking of the environmental peril, in
particular global warming, drought and desertification, and weather-related
natural disasters. The State of the Climate in Africa 2020 estimates that by
2030, 118 million Africans will be at risk of extreme poverty due to a
combination of sea level rise, flooding, drought and other related
phenomena,” President Sall added.
According to the latest Drought in Numbers
report compiled by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD),
droughts have increased in frequency by 29 percent since 2000, with some 55
million people affected every year. Recent droughts in Australia, Europe,
western United States, Chile, the Horn and Southern Africa, show that no
country is immune to drought.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) projects that droughts will be more frequent, severe and last longer.
Climate change bears much of the responsibility, but so does how we manage
our land and water resources. The IPCC estimates that three out of every
four people in the world will be living in drier, water-scare conditions by
2050.
Helping countries, cities and communities to
build drought resilience presents an opportunity to significantly reduce the
high social and economic costs. This includes the loss of life, livelihoods
and biological diversity, water and food insecurity, and disruption in the
energy, transportation and tourism sectors, as well as forced migration,
displacement, and conflicts over scarce resources.
For more information, please contact:
Contact UNCCD:
a.. Xenya Scanlon, Chief of Communications,
xscanlon at unccd.int
b.. Wagaki Wischnewski, Public Information
and Media Officer, wwischnewski at unccd.int
About the UNCCD
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Desertification (UNCCD) is the global vision and voice for land. We unite
governments, scientists, policymakers, private sector and communities around
a shared vision and global action to restore and manage the world’s land for
the sustainability of humanity and the planet. Much more than an
international treaty signed by 197 parties, UNCCD is a multilateral
commitment to mitigating today’s impacts of land degradation and advancing
tomorrow’s land stewardship in order to provide food, water, shelter and
economic opportunity to all people in an equitable and inclusive manner.
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For more information on the Press Release,
contact
Wagaki Wischnewski
Public Information and Media Officer
From: UNCCD Secretariat
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2022 4:49 PM
Subject: COP27 Summit to launch international
drought resilience alliance
World leaders to launch a new alliance to
boost drought resilience on Monday, 7 November 2022, at Sharm el-Sheikh
Climate Change Conference
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