The Department for International Development (DFID), UK has commissioned a Consortium led by the University of Leeds, UK to undertake the study "Improving Policy-Livelihood Relationships in South Asia" .

The NAP contains six chapters. Chapter one summarises the background of the UNCCD, major obligations, inter-linkages between the conventions – UNCCD, CBD and UNFCCC, and Nepal's participation in UNCCD processes. Chapter two documents status of natural resources, significant environmental issues at the national level, and state of land degradation and desertification along with its causes and consequences. Chapter three highlights national level policies, strategies, master plans, regulatory mechanisms, fiscal incentives and institutional development within the framework of sustainable development.

Implementation of UN Convention to Combat Desertification 2000 NATIONAL REPORT (NEPAL) for Fourth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

This report has been prepared under the guidance of the Inter-Agency Steering Committee and two working groups and the outcomes of the national seminar.

Nepal, along with over 150 other nations, signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. Nepal ratified the Convention on 2nd May in 1994, and this convention came into force in Nepal on 31st July in 1994.

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State of the Environment(SOE) Report focuses on agriculture and forestry sectors and documents information on the P-S-I-R (Pressure-State-Impact-Response) analytical framework.