The Conference of the Parties,
Methodological updates for strategic objectives 1 to 5:
7. Endorses version 2 of the Good Practice Guidance for Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 15.3.1 and the Good Practice Guidance for National Reporting on Strategic Objective 3, published in 2021 and summarized in document ICCD/COP(15)/CST/7- ICCD/CRIC(20)/8, as methodological documents of reference for national reporting;
8. Requests the secretariat, following the practical ‘learning-by-doing’ approach of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, to periodically review and update, within available resources, the Good Practice Guidance documents informing United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification reporting;
9. Endorses the updated monitoring framework for United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification reporting and provisionally adopts the following new indicators: (a) Trends in the proportion of the population exposed to land degradation disaggregated by sex; (b) As optional for reporting: Proportion of important sites for terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity that are covered by protected areas, by ecosystem type;
10. Also provisionally adopts the following new optional indicators relating to strategic objective 5: (a) International and domestic private resources; (b) Technology transfer; and (c) Future support for activities related to the implementation of the Convention;
11. Encourages Parties to:
(a) Follow the guidance contained in the Good Practice Guidance for Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 15.3.1 and the Good Practice Guidance for National Reporting on Strategic Objective 3 for the preparation of their national reports;
(b) Report during the 2022 United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification reporting process on the newly proposed indicators for strategic objectives 2, and optionally on strategic objectives 4 and 5;
(c) Recalculate, as needed, previously submitted baseline estimates of the indicators in order to capitalize on scientific and technical advances in the quality of underlying datasets and indicator derivation methodologies, and ensure comparability between baselines and future reporting data;
(d) Make use of the updated implementation framework and provide, among other good practices, information on the gender dimension of projects or activities implemented at national level;
(e) Provide United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification-relevant information and good practices to the designated World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies database, where appropriate;
12. Invites the Group on Earth Observations Land Degradation Neutrality Initiative to encourage the Earth observations community to develop multi-decadal high-resolution (10– 30m) interoperable data products for the land surface dating back to the year 2000 as a contribution to United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification reporting and Sustainable Development Goal indicator 15.3.1 reporting;
13. Requests the secretariat to report to the twenty-first session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention on the progress made in implementing this decision.
