The Korea Forest Service introduced that it participated within the twenty third Committee for the Assessment of the Implementation of the Conference (CRIC) of the UN Conference to Fight Desertification (UNCCD) held in Panama Metropolis, Panama from December 1 to five, sharing Korea’s worldwide cooperation actions for stopping yellow mud and land degradation with taking part nations.
On December 2, the second day of the occasion, the Korea Forest Service and the Conference to Fight Desertification collectively held a panel dialogue underneath the theme “Changwon Initiative Success Tales.”
Park Eun-sik, Deputy Director of the Korea Forest Service, emphasised in a video message that “the Changwon Initiative is a consultant land restoration success mannequin created by Korea along with the worldwide neighborhood, offering vital momentum for reaching land degradation neutrality targets in every nation, and we’ll proceed to do our greatest to create a sustainable future along with the UN Conference to Fight Desertification.”
The Changwon Initiative was launched by Korea on the tenth Convention of the Events to the Conference to Fight Desertification held in Changwon in 2011, contributing to the institution of voluntary land degradation neutrality targets by roughly 130 nations worldwide, and has established itself as a consultant initiative of the UN Conference to Fight Desertification by supporting dryland greening tasks in 18 nations.
The Conference to Fight Desertification printed the “Changwon Initiative Success Tales” in October, compiling 14 years of Changwon Initiative achievements, and this panel dialogue was held to commemorate this publication.
The dialogue featured participation from stakeholders together with nations the place Changwon Initiative discipline tasks have been carried out, worldwide organizations, and civil society, sharing experiences and coverage instructions concerning the linkage between science and coverage for land degradation neutrality, constructing resilience towards yellow mud, and bettering residents’ livelihoods by way of agroforestry.
Moreover, the Korea Forest Service introduced that 2026 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the launch of the Changwon Initiative and the twentieth anniversary of the implementation of the Korea-Mongolia Inexperienced Belt mission, one other of Korea’s desertification prevention initiatives. The service plans to intensively promote Korea’s worldwide contribution actions for land degradation and desertification prevention to individuals from roughly 190 nations worldwide, making the most of the seventeenth Convention of the Events to the UN Conference to Fight Desertification to be held in Mongolia in August subsequent 12 months.
