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A geography note on the Philippines lists the country as a party to agreements on biodiversity, climate change, endangered species, hazardous wastes, the law of the sea, and marine dumping. The same party list also names the nuclear test ban, ozone layer protection, tropical timber agreements of 83 and 94, wetlands, and whaling. Desertification appears instead among agreements that were signed but not ratified, together with the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The note does not describe local dryland programs, maps, or a national desertification rate. It only places desertification in that signed-but-not-ratified group. Readers looking for a project, agency, or timeline will not find one in this excerpt.
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