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Convening under a “silence procedure,” the parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification adopted its 2022 budget, ensuring the Convention and the Secretariat will continue to operate until the Conference of the Parties can convene in 2022.
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For the second time since the Convention entered into force in 1996, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) convened an extraordinary session (ES-2) of its Conference of the Parties (COP) in December 2021. The decision by the COP Bureau, at its meeting in June 2021, was in response to the continued postponement of the UNCCD COP 15—originally scheduled to take place in late 2021—due to the COVID-19 pandemic. COP 15 is now expected to take place in Côte d’Ivoire in mid-2022.
The purpose of UNCCD ES-2 was to adopt a draft interim budget outlining human and financial resources requirements as well as programme priorities for 2022. This enabled the Convention and the Secretariat to continue functioning until COP 15 can take place. In accordance with UNCCD rules, the session took place under the silence procedure from 12:30 pm CET (UTC+1) on Monday, 6 December 2021, upon transmission of the written statement of the COP President. With silence unbroken through a written comment, the session closed at 12:30 pm CET on Thursday, 9 December, following which the decision was considered adopted.
The first-ever UNCCD extraordinary session convened in November 2007 in New York following the deferment of budget negotiations at COP 8 in Madrid.
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Organizational Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the Elaboration of an International Convention to Combat Desertification
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1st Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the International Convention to Combat Desertification
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2nd Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the International Convention to Combat Desertification
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1993 Year-end Update of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the Elaboration of an International Convention to Combat Desertification
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3rd Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the International Convention to Combat Desertification
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4th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the International Convention to Combat Desertification
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5th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the International Convention to Combat Desertification
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UN General Assembly Discussions on UNCCD
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1994 Year-end Update of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the Elaboration of an International Convention to Combat Desertification
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6th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the International Convention to Combat Desertification
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7th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the International Convention to Combat Desertification
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1995 Year-end Update of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the Elaboration of an International Convention to Combat Desertification
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8th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the International Convention to Combat Desertification
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9th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the International Convention to Combat Desertification
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10th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the International Convention to Combat Desertification
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Resumed 10th Session of the of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the International Convention to Combat Desertification
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UNCCD COP 1
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UNCCD COP 2
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UNCCD COP 3
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UNCCD COP 4
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UNCCD COP 5
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UNCCD CRIC 1
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UNCCD COP 6
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Workshop on "Forests and Forest Ecosystems: Promoting Synergy in the Implementation of the Three Rio Conventions"
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UNCCD CRIC 3
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UNCCD COP 7
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UNCCD CRIC 5
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UNCCD COP 8
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1st Extraordinary Session of the Conference of the Parties (ExCOP) to the UNCCD
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High-level Policy Dialogue “Coping with Today’s Global Challenges in the Context of the UNCCD Strategy”
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UNCCD CRIC 7 and 1st Special Session of the Committee on Science and Technology (CST S-1)
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UNCCD COP 9
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UNCCD CRIC 9 and 2nd Special Session of the Committee on Science and Technology (CST S-2)
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UNCCD COP 10
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3rd Special Session of the UNCCD Committee on Science and Technology (CST S-3)
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11th Session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 11) of the UNCCD
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11th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 11)
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4th Special Session of the Committee on Science and Technology (CST S-4) and UNCCD 3rd Scientific Conference
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13th Session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 13) to the UNCCD
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12th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 12)
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15th Session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 15) to the UNCCD
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13th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 13)
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17th Session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 17) to the UNCCD
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14th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 14)
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19th Session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 19) of the UNCCD
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2nd Extraordinary Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD
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15th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 15)
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21st Session of the UNCCD Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC-21)
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16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 16)
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