UN Convention to Combat Desertification
Helga Karsten is an experienced communications professional currently serving as the Website and Social Media Lead at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) since July 2017, where responsibilities include managing social media communications and overseeing impactful campaigns that have doubled audience reach. Prior to this role, Helga contributed as a Consulting Editor for the UNCCD, helping to design and launch the UNCCD Knowledge Hub to enhance knowledge sharing and e-learning. Additionally, Helga worked as a Partnerships Consultant for The Global Crop Diversity Trust, focusing on engaging the Russian Federation as a donor through strategic outreach and media coordination. Helga holds a Master of Arts in International Media Studies from Deutsche Welle Akademie, completed between 2013 and 2016.
UN Convention to Combat Desertification
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Our lives depend on land. Healthy land feeds, shelters and clothes us. It sustains our planet’s vital ecosystems, preserves biodiversity and plays a fundamental and increasingly urgent role in mitigating climate change. When land has been degraded by human intervention or plagued by drought, it loses its capacity to sustain life with dire consequences. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is the global vision and voice for land. We unite governments, scientists, policymakers, private sector and communities around a shared vision and global action to restore and manage the world’s land for the sustainability of humanity and the planet. Much more than an international treaty signed by 197 parties, UNCCD is a multilateral commitment to mitigating today’s impacts of land degradation and advancing tomorrow’s land stewardship in order to provide food, water, shelter and economic opportunity to all people in an equitable and inclusive manner. Abundant healthy land fosters our collective wellbeing and resilience, and can enable all people to live on a safe, just and prosperous planet. #UNited4Land