Bhutan

Final Report on Sustainable Land Management Review

Land degradation is a major environmental and sustainable development issue across many countries around the world. Recognizing it as a global phenomenon and the need for collective international action to address it, the international community adopted the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in June 1994. As of July 2008, 193 countries had become party to this international treaty. Bhutan acceded to it in August 2003.