About the event

The UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2030, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in April 2017, builds on the vision of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and features ground-breaking targets to increase forest area globally by 3% or 120 million hectares, and to eradicate extreme poverty for all forest dependent people by 2030. The UNCCD COP13 Side Event highlighted how sustainably managed forests play a vital role in preventing land degradation and desertification, reducing the risk of floods, droughts, dust and sand storms and other natural disasters. China’s experience on combatting desertification through sustainable forest management was also introduced.

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