Programme

18 August 2026

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Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention

10:00 - 13:00

Plenary Hall

CRIC 2nd meeting

Capacity-building

15:00 - 18:00

Plenary Hall

CRIC 3rd meeting

GEF, mobilization of resources

Committee on Science and Technology

10:00 - 13:00

Main Committee

CST 1st meeting

Opening, organizational matters

15:00 - 18:00

Main Committee

CST 2nd meeting

Knowledge sharing, future functioning of the SPI

Contact groups

10:00 - 13:00

MET-15

CoW Contact Group on Budget

Starts at 13:00

MET-11

COW Contact Group on Other Matters

15:00 - 18:00

MET-15

CoW Contact Group on Budget

18:00 - 20:00

MET-11

Cow Contact Group on Other Matters

Starts at 18:00

MET-12

CRIC Contact Group

Regional consultations

08:30 - 09:30

MET-27

JUSCANZ

09:00 - 10:00

MET-26

EU Coordination Meeting

13:00 - 14:00

MET-31

League of Arab States

Meetings of the Bureaux

13:00 - 14:00

MET-20

COP Bureau

14:00 - 14:30

MET-19

CRIC Bureau

Meetings of the Regional Implementation Annexes

09:00 - 10:00

MET-08

Meeting of the Regional Implementation Annex for Africa (Annex I)

09:00 - 10:00

MET-09

Meeting of the Regional Implementation Annex for Asia (Annex II)

Other meetings

08:00 - 09:00

MET-03

CSO Consultations

08:00 - 08:30

MET-04

Indigenous Peoples Caucus

08:00 - 09:00

MET-09

Pacific SIDS Daily Coordination Meetings

09:00 - 18:00

MET-03

Youth Forum

14:00 - 15:00

MET-17

Partnership Meeting: Youth Capacity Building & Sustainable Tourism opportunities

15:00 - 18:00

MET-30

Informal Informal Consultations of the Interested Parties on CoW Agenda Items

Side events

08:30 - 10:00

MET-04

177 (IMPACT Kenya) Shepherding the Future: Voices from African Indigenous Pastoralists

08:30 - 10:00

MET-01

47 (Beijing Forestry University) Building a Greener Mongolian Plateau: China–Mongolia Cooperation for Ecological Restoration, Desertification Control, and Mongolia’s Billion Trees Vision

08:30 - 10:00

MET-07

619 (OPEC Fund for International Development) Green-Blue Finance: Investing in the Land-Water Nexus for Resilience

08:30 - 10:00

MET-02

98 (French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development) Counter-mapping pastoral mobility: traditional knowledge, land justice, and sustainable rangeland management

10:30 - 12:00

MET-01

100 (The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)) Financing Climate-Smart Agriculture for Land Restoration: Linking Sustainable Land Management with Carbon Markets

10:30 - 12:00

MET-02

267 (National Agency for Meteorology, Hydrology and Environmental Monitoring (NAMEM)) National rangeland monitoring network, including soil degradation and recovery trend

10:30 - 12:00

MET-05

449 (CAUCE: Cultura Ambiental, Causa Ecologista, AIDER and Drynet Network) Healthy Soils 4 Food: Connecting Agricultural Land Restoration, Food Systems and Nutrition

10:30 - 12:00

MET-07

501 (Green Mongolia Hub) Voice of the Desert: The Expanding Reality of Desertification, Understanding Regional Dryland Risks, Climate Vulnerability, and Land Degradation Trends

10:30 - 12:00

MET-06

598 (NIA TERO and FSC–Indigenous Foundation) Report Launch, Beyond Fragmentation: Advancing Coherence, Equity, and Indigenous Leadership Across the Rio Conventions

10:30 - 12:00

MET-04

616 (Food and Agriculture Organization) FAO–UNCCD Joint Initiative: Advancing Land Tenure integration for Land Restoration

13:00 - 14:30

MET-05

109 (Global Environment Facility) Present and Future of GEF Support to UNCCD: From GEF-8 to GEF-9

13:00 - 14:30

MET-04

165 (Qur'anic Botanic Garden, Hamad bin Khalifa University) Botanical Gardens as Partners in Land Restoration: Qatar's Qur'anic Botanic Garden's Model for Arid-Region Native Species Conservation

13:00 - 14:30

MET-06

443 (COP30 Presidency) Halting and Reversing Deforestation and Forest Degradation by 2030: COP30 Presidency Roadmap and other initiatives

13:00 - 14:30

MET-07

96 (Future Leaders Network) Closing the Drought Communication Gap: Youth Harnessing Media for Policy-to-Public Action

15:00 - 16:30

MET-01

106 (International Conservation Caucus Foundation) Policy Coherence in Action: From Theory to Practice – Results and Lessons Learned

15:00 - 16:30

MET-04

210 (Sahara and Sahel Observatory) From Data to Hope: Country-Led UNCCD Reporting for Restored Landscapes

15:00 - 16:30

MET-05

295 (TMG Think Tank for Sustainability, IUCN) Governing and Financing Land Restoration at the National Level: A High-Level Dialogue

15:00 - 16:30

MET-02

317 (Ministry of Environment) Desertification,drought,and dust storms in Iraq

15:00 - 16:30

MET-07

97 (SEVA / ILRI / IYRP South Asia) Rangeland Awards/ Champions and Best Practices of Community on Rangeland Management and Pastoralism

18:00 - 19:30

MET-06

181 (Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation) Restoring Land, Empowering the Next Generation: Youth and Intergenerational Leadership in Land Restoration

18:00 - 19:30

MET-02

226 (Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University) Strengthening food security through crop-livestock management with sustainable rangeland in drylands: From Mongolia to Eurasia

18:00 - 19:30

MET-07

313 (The Alliance of National and International Science Organizations for the Belt and Road Regions (ANSO), Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Society of Entrepreneurs and Ecology Foundation) Science, Innovation and Partnership for Combating Desertification:

18:00 - 19:30

MET-04

412 (International Water Management Institute) Launching the Drought Action Catalyst Strategy: Catalytic Assistance for Integrated Drought Resilience, Finance and Mitigation

18:00 - 19:30

MET-01

573 (International Water Management Institute, Global Commission on the Economics of Water) When Water Has No Price, Land Pays the Cost: Reforming Agricultural Subsidies and Tariffs to Finance Land Restoration

18:00 - 19:30

MET-05

635 (WOCAT (CDE, GIZ, FAO, ICARDA, ISRIC, ICIMOD, CIAT), PANORAMA (GIZ, IUCN, UNDP)) Knowledge for Implementing the Rio Conventions

18:00 - 19:30

MET-03

709 (Drynet (AJESH, Indigo development & change PLC, Meat Naturally)) Community-Led Regenerative Livelihood Systems and Value Chains for Land Degradation Neutrality and Resilient Landscapes

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