Rio Conventions Pavilion - Day of Science - Introducing the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land

Facilitator: Mariam Akhtar-Schuster, SPI

09:00 Welcome address and introduction to the Science Day
Pradeep Monga, UNCCD Deputy Executive Secretary

09:05 Introducing Land Degradation Neutrality
Annette Cowie

09:20 Opening remarks
Mariam Akhtar-Schuster and Annette Cowie

09:30 Introduction to the report
Jim Skea (Co-Chair, Working Group III), Minal Pathak (Technical Support Unit Working Group III, Drafting Author, SPM), and Alisher Mirzabaev (Coordinating Lead Author)

10:20 Panel
Annette Cowie, Fatima Denton (Coordinating Lead Author), Jagdish Krishnaswamy (Coordinating Lead Author), Alisher Mirzabaev, Minal Pathak, Jim Skea and Lindsay Stringer Lead Author; University of Leeds)