The Role of the Desertification Convention in the Early 21st Century - Facing the Fundamentals of Human Existence -

摘要

Some people might say that the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is not really an environmental instrument, but rather a multilateral treaty on development cooperation. However, the borderlines are not very clear, since the UNCCD, or Desertification Convention, is one of the three Conventions established in connection with the Rio Conference on Environment and Development in 1992. Together with its sister Conventions on Climate Change and on Biological Diversity, it is partof a major effort to tackle global environmental problems in such a way that the effort of reducing poverty in developing countries and secure equitable growth is not hampered.