Programme

17 أغسطس 2026

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Conference of the Parties

09:00 - 10:00

Plenary Hall

COP 17 Opening ceremony

10:00 - 13:00

Plenary Hall

COP 1st meeting

Organizational matters

15:00 - 18:00

MET-08

COP 2nd meeting

Formal statements

Committee of the Whole

15:00 - 18:00

Plenary Hall

COW 1st meeting

Programme and budget, Intergovernmental Working Group on the Future Strategic Framework of the Convention, Drought

Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention

15:00 - 18:00

Main Committee

CRIC 1st meeting

Adoption of the agenda, effective implementation of the Convention

Contact groups

18:00 - 20:15

MET-11

CoW Contact Group on Other Matters

18:15 - 20:00

MET-15

CoW Contact Group on Budget

Regional consultations

08:00 - 09:00

MET-27

JUSCANZ

09:00 - 10:00

MET-26

EU Coordination Meeting

Other meetings

08:00 - 10:00

MET-03

CSO Consultation

08:00 - 09:00

MET-30

Indigenous Peoples Consultation

08:00 - 09:00

MET-09

Pacific SIDS Daily Coordination Meetings

13:00 - 14:00

MET-31

League of Arab States

13:00 - 14:30

MET-16

Press Conference

17:00 - 19:00

MET-30

Indigenous Peoples Caucus

Side events

08:30 - 10:00

MET-02

151 (Beijing Forestry University) Scientific Pathways for Restoring the Mongolian Plateau: Climate Change, Desertification Dynamics, and Support for Mongolia’s Billion Trees Initiative

08:30 - 10:00

MET-01

223 (KSA) Sustainable Water Management in Arid Regions: The Role of Water Sector Governance in Saudi Arabia in Achieving Water Security

08:30 - 10:00

MET-04

707 (Rights and Resources Institute) Moving Rights Forward: Advancing Pastoralist Rights and Customary Tenure Through Legal and Policy Change

08:30 - 10:00

MET-23

800 (Natural Resources & Watershed Management Org. of Iran (NRWO)) Best Practices of Iran in Combating Desertification and SDS management

10:30 - 12:00

MET-04

357 (UNCCD Earthbanc) From LDN targets to investable projects

10:30 - 12:00

MET-03

428 (Young Professionals For Agricultural Development -YPARD) Young people fostering multisectoral partnerships to combat desertification and promote synergies under the Rio Conventions

10:30 - 12:00

MET-02

558 (Future Forest) Mobilizing CSOs and Youths for Future Earth

10:30 - 12:00

MET-05

850 (Republic of Kazakhstan) Strengthening Global Water Governance in Addressing Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought

13:00 - 14:30

MET-07

122 (UNCCD , United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, The Kaschak Institute, Landesa) Establishing a Follow-up Mechanism for the Implementation of the UNCCD Gender Action Plan (GAP)

13:00 - 14:30

MET-23

126 (Comité Scientifique Français de la Désertification) Pastoral Systems & the Rio Conventions: Science for Policy and Finance to Unlock Co-Benefits

13:00 - 14:30

MET-01

213 (KSA) Addressing Global Water Challenges, Journey to the 11th World Water Forum

13:00 - 14:30

MET-02

286 (Wayfinders Circle/ WUISP/ Nia Tero / Pawanka Fund) Indigenous Peoples Pastoralists: Managing and Restoring Ancestral Lands through Intergenerational transmission of Knowledge and Self governance practices

13:00 - 14:30

MET-22

318 (The Corbett Foundation) Community-based Restoration of Grasslands: A Sustainable Model from Kutch, Gujarat, India

13:00 - 14:30

MET-24

324 (Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Mongolia Office) JICA’s Initiatives for Climate and Environmental Sustainability in Mongolia

13:00 - 14:30

MET-05

704 (Water Youth Network) From COP to the UN Water Conference: Youth Priorities for a Just Water Agenda

13:00 - 14:30

MET-04

99 (High Atlas Foundation) Rooted in Change: Women’s Leadership in Agriculture as Morocco’s Carbon Opportunity

15:00 - 16:30

MET-22

204 (CEMADEN MCTI and Instituto Nacional do Semiárido, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande) Social Technologies for Reversing Risk of Drought and Desertification: Building Resilience, Prosperity and Sustainability Across the Latin America’s Drylands

15:00 - 16:30

MET-03

332 (RAED - Arab Network for Environment and Development) Sustainable Agriculture in Dry Areas in the Arab Region

15:00 - 16:30

MET-05

338 (UNDP, UNEP and UNCCD) Unlocking Land Restoration Financing for Resilience and Stability in Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings

15:00 - 16:30

MET-23

347 (Wetlands International, Wildlife Science and Conservation Center of Mongolia (WSCC), Greifswald Mire Center & FAO) Peatlands as Nature-based Solutions for LDN, Drought Resilience and Climate Action

15:00 - 16:30

MET-06

439 (IUCN/Global EbA Fund) Financing resilience – scaling ecosystem-based solutions for degraded lands through integrated research, action, finance and policy

15:00 - 16:30

MET-24

469 (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) Investing in Pastoral Futures: Responsible Investment for Resilient and Healthy Rangelands

15:00 - 16:30

MET-07

633 (National Environmental Youth Council of Mongolia) International Young Land Professionals Networking Event

15:00 - 16:30

MET-01

642 (FSC-Indigenous Foundation) The Role of Forest in Mitigating Land Degradation

15:00 - 16:30

MET-04

705 (Conservation International) Integrated Land Use Planning in Practice: Advancing Inclusive and Data-Driven Decision Support

18:00 - 19:30

MET-22

107 (Kaschak Institute, UN Women, Women Land Rights Initiative, Panama and Germany / BMZ) High-level dialogue on the path to an enhanced GAP under the UNCCD

18:00 - 19:30

MET-03

492 (Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), in collaboration with Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change India, IUCN, CoE-SLM of ICFRE, and Space application centre, ISRO, India) Launch of first ever Guide on India

18:00 - 19:30

MET-02

662 (Council of Europe and other partners (Spain)) Landscapes for Resilience: A Multifaceted Response to Land Degradation, Climate Stress and Social Vulnerability

18:00 - 19:30

MET-01

71 (UNU-IAS, IPSI, EcoAgriculture Partners, 1000 Landscapes for a Billion People Initiative, UNDP, CGIAR, Yolda Initiative , Ambition Loop) The imperative to finance landscape and territorial scale governance to achieve multiple policy-action goals

18:00 - 19:30

MET-23

81 (Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)) Atelier préparatoire des pays francophones

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