ABSTRACT
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) negotiations concluded without a strong commitment by developed country parties to contribute new and additional resources to its implementation and without a consensus on the nature of the financial mechanisms that would support its implementation. This outcome differed considerably from that of the fellow conventions, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which both benefited from well-defined issues for which the global political and scientific communities had created the urgency and direction needed to instigate an influx of financing. The UNCCD’s financial provisions, including the Global Mechanism (GM), were instead designed to mobilise, channel, and co-ordinate financial flows to fight poverty and land degradation in drylands.
