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Salih Serdar Yegül - Nur Aslıhan Karaman
Murat Türkeş

In this scope, all relevant institutions are requested to send the amounts of
realisation in accordance with the voluntary targets listed in Table 2 regularly
each year. The amounts of realisation according to the data obtained from the
institutions until 2019 are given in Table 1. In line with targets, afforestation and
soil preservation works will be conducted in an area of around 10,000 km2 in
order to make forest areas reaching up to 30% of the country’s surface area
by 2030 which is adopted as a LDN target. If the current state of one million
hectares of forest area intended to be established is considered as agricultural
land, it is estimated that the amount of carbon to be stored will be 15,33 million
tons as a result of the calculations taking into account the approximate organic
carbon amounts according to the land use of Türkiye’s soil (ÇEMGM, 2016).

4. UNCCD COP15 Resolutions

UNCCD’s 15th Conference of Parties (COP 15) was held on May 9-20, 2022
in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. About 7,000 participants, 3,000 of whom were local,
attended to COP 15. COP 15 discussed the progress in key thematic areas
such as migration, land use rights, sand and dust storms (SDS), gender and
drought. Following the two weeks of negotiations at COP 15, thirty-eight
resolutions were adopted on improving drought resilience, reducing land
degradation and investing in land restoration efforts. Some of these decisions
are listed below (UNCCD, 2024):
• Ensuring the restoration of one billion hectares of degraded land by
2030 through improved data collection, monitoring and reporting,
• Increasing the drought resistance by developing a new partnership
model for large-scale integrated landscape investment programs,
• Improving the national policies and early warning, monitoring and
assessment, especially in relation to sand and dust storms and drought,
• Capacity building at the regional level, sharing of knowledge and
lessons and improving coordination for these efforts,
• Establishing an Intergovernmental Working Group on Drought for
2022- 2024 to support the transition from reactive to proactive drought
management,

• Enhancing women’s participation in land management by ensuring the
right to safe land use and collecting the data by gender on the effects
of desertification, land degradation and drought,

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