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At the UNCCD COP14 recently held in Delhi India, the Capacity Building Marketplace (CBM) featured strongly through its side-event "Talking Capacity Building and You. A chance to share and to receive!" which took place on 6th of September. The CBM team of Jairo (Colombia), Ali (Pakistan), Jorge (Spain), Lilia (Russia), Loretta (Ghana), and Paul (France) had worked -under the guidance of CBM Manager, Dr. Richard A. Byron-Cox- for weeks organizing this major event. From the planning of the exercise to the designing of materials, and the organization of a grand cocktail to close the event, were all in the hands of the Team. This was all being done working with people halfway around the world from Germany, i.e. in India. People they had never and will never meet in person as no member of the Team save the Manager attended the COP. But they made it a grand affair, as from all accounts, the event turned out magnificently!!
The Ambassador of Turkmenistan to the Federal Republic of Germany Mr. Toily Atayev and the First Consulate Mr. Murad Ozbekbayev visited the UNCCD secretariat last week to meet with the UNCCD Executive Secretary Mr. Ibrahim Thiaw and the UNCCD staff.
The UNCCD conference app is relevant for all delegates and other participants of all sessions of the UNCCD Conference of Parties (COP), the Committee of Science and Technology (CST) and the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC).
The Science-Policy Interface (SPI) of the UNCCD has just published three important technical reports.
A major practical dimension of land restoration for many countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is the importance of peatlands for multilateral benefits, such as carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation. As part of a global assessment made in 2018, peatlands in CEE have been rated as the largest CO2 reservoir. At the same time, measures for restoration of peat bogs to increase carbon storage capacity can be 14 times cheaper than new technological developments for capturing CO2 from the atmosphere.
UN organizations based in the city that proudly calls itself the Global Sustainability Hub came together on 20 August to welcome the new Head of UN Environment Ms. Inger Andersen and discuss priorities for 2019-2020. Addressing the gathering, heads of UNCCD, UN Volunteers, UNFCCC and UN Environment were unanimous in their conviction that building a safe and equitable future for all will require collective and connected efforts from all agencies that work on issues of climate, biodiversity, land and human well-being.