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Land DayVideo on Demand coming soon View Jeffrey Sachs, Keynote Address, Land Day through Video on Demand Click on the links below to see the presentations of the day Opening Session » Welcoming address by Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) secretariat. » Opening remarks by Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat » Opening remarks by Adolf Kloke-Lesch, Director-General, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Panel session 1: How does sustainable land management support climate change adaptation? » Ced Hesse, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Mobility, reciprocity and flexibility: enabling autonomous adaptation » Emmanuel Chinyamakobvu, UNCCD Identifying complementarities and similarities between the UNFCCC NAPAs and the UNCCD NAPs for partnership building » Anna Tengberg, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Adapting to climate change through sustainable land management (SLM) » Anneke Trux, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH Adapting to climate change: Challenges for drylands Panel session 2: What options can soil carbon sequestration offer for mitigating and adapting to climate change? » Moderator: Paul Vlek, Centre for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn Land decline in land rich Africa: A creeping disaster in the making » Danielle de Man, International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) Carbon sequestration in practice – SLM and the role of agricultural producers » Rattan Lal, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, Ohio State University Soil amendments and carbon sequestration for adaptation and mitigation of climate change » Daniel Martino, Carbosur Challenges for the development of methodologies for measurement, reporting and verification in agricultural soils » Peter Holmgren, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Rebuilding resilience – sustainable land management for climate mitigation and adaptation » Barney Dickson, UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) Assessing options for carbon management in drylands Panel session 3: Sustainable Land Management in climate change policy frameworks: what is the way forward? » Johan Kuylenstierna, UN Water Can Climate Change adaptation support the integration of land and water management issues? » Roberto Acosta, UNFCCC Beyond the Copenhagen agreement: options and mechanisms needed for the inclusion of soils in mitigation » Mark Cackler, World Bank Integrating Sustainable Land Management and Climate Action on the Ground |
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