Desertification: coping with today’s global challenges

This report from the High-Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD) held in Bonn on May 27, 2008, under the official title “Coping with Today’s Global Challenges in the Context of the Strategy of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification” discusses ways to forge the necessary global partnership, provides the right global institutional platform and enacts the reforms that The Strategy calls for, with a view to consolidating understanding within the context of the Convention’s strategic orientations. It contains the key messages, along with the conclusions of the Chairperson with the purpose of helping policy- and decision-makers take full account of the discussions in Bonn and facilitate work towards The Strategy’s successful implementation.