The nineteenth session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 19) to the UNCCD will be organized online from 15 to 19 March 2021. The daily online meetings will last for two hours from 12.30 – 2.30 p.m. Bonn time (Central European Time).
The CRIC 19 will review the effective implementation of the Convention at national, subregional and regional levels including updates on the voluntary land degradation neutrality target setting process, operationalization of the Land Degradation Neutrality Fund and implementation of the Drought Initiative. The Intergovernmental Working Group on effective policy and implementation measures for addressing drought under the UNCCD will present its interim report for consideration by Parties at CRIC19.
Generic notification letters informing Parties on the arrangements for the online CRIC19 session are posted under the Notification letters section.
The CRIC19 provisional agenda and the pre-session documentation can be found under the official documents section.
CRIC19 online registration will be available from 15 January 2021 under the corresponding section. User guidelines of the interpretation platform to be used for CRIC19 are made available in all UN languages here.
Meetings of affected country Parties of the Convention’s regional implementation annexes for Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern Mediterranean and Central and Eastern Europe in preparation to CRIC 19 will be also organized online starting February 2021. Further information on the agreed dates and schedule of work can be found under the regional meetings section.
