UNITED NATIONS
JOURNAL
2-14 September 2019
UNCCD
Programme of Meetings and Agenda
Conference of the Parties
COP Bureau
Committee of the Whole
Committee of the Whole (COW)
Forthcoming official meetings
High-level segment
Opening Ceremony of the High Level Segment (Please take your seats well in advance)
Ministerial Sessions - Roundtable 1 - Land, Climate and Renewable Energy
The objective of this session is to secure guidance on how land-based solutions can be strategically deployed to fight climate change and deliver access to renewable energy for all.
Chair: H. E. Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Co-Chair: H. E. Mr. Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources, Iceland
Ministerial Sessions - Roundtable 2 - Rural and urban communities: failing or flourishing together
The objective of this session is to secure guidance on how urban and rural areas can work together to manage the land sustainably.
Chair: Ana Cristina Quiros, Vice Minister, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Costa Rica
Co-Chair: H.E Mr. Almoustapha Garba, Minister, Ministry of Environment, Urban Safety and Sustainable Development, Niger
Ministerial Sessions - Roundtable 3 - Fostering a Global Movement for Ecosystem Restoration
The objective of this session is to secure guidance on how we can create and sustain a global movement for ecosystem restoration.
Chair: H. E. Mr. Nestor Bassiere, Minister, Ministry of Environment, Green Economy and Climate Change, Burkina Faso
Co-Chair: H. E. Honourable Dr. Mahendra Reddy, Minister, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural and Maritime Development, Waterways and Environment, Fiji
Regional consultations
African Group
Eastern European Group
GRULAC
Asian Group
JUSCANZ
Group of Arab Countries
Contact groups
CSO Consultations
CoW Contact Group on Budget
CRIC Contact Group
GLO Steering Committee
CoW Contact Group on other Matters
Rio Conventions Pavilion
Rio Conventions Pavilion - Day of Sand and Dust Storms - Meeting of the UN SDS Coalition
- Welcoming remarks by UNEP and UNCCD
- Presentation on the SDS Coalition, its mandate and objectives
- Roundtable discussion on challenges and opportunities in addressing Sand and Dust Storms in the light of achieving Sustainable Development Goals, including presentations by the Coalition members on their roles and contributions
- Interactive dialogue between Member States, UN agencies and other stakeholders on opportunities for collaboration at national and regional level on SDS that can be promoted and enhanced by the Coalition
- Expression of interest and commitments including by new partners in support of the Coalition
Rio Conventions Pavilion - Day of Sand and Dust Storms - Technical session on Sand and Dust Storms Sources mapping
- SDS impacts (Hesham El-Askary, Chapman University)
- A global SDS source mapping methodology (UNCCD)
- Sand dust mapping approach based on data fusion of satellite image and UAV observations: A case study in Mongolia (Jungrak Kim, University of Seoul)
- Mapping soil organic matter content using Sentinel-2 data with Google Earth Engine
(Xiaosong Li, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Rio Conventions Pavilion - Day of Sand and Dust Storms - High level session
- Opening remarks: Ibrahim Thiaw, UNCCD Executive Secretary
- Welcome remarks: UNEP
- Congratulatory remarks
- Launch of the SDS Coalition
- Launch of the global sand and dust storms source base-map
Rio Conventions Pavilion - Day of Sand and Dust Storms - Actions to combat sand and dust storms
- SDS vulnerability assessment and mapping (Sanjay Srivastava, UNESCAP)
- SDS source mitigation (Enrico Bonaiuti, ICARDA/WOCAT)
- Human Security Trust Fund on Aral Sea (Bakhodir Kuziev, Uzbekistan)
- Central Asia SDS Initiative (Jamal Annagylyjova, UNCCD)
- SDS action in Nigeria (tbc)
- Presentation of the SDS compendium (Utchang Kang, UNCCD)
Rio Conventions Pavilion - Day of Sand and Dust Storms - Concluding session: Resilience and Preparedness
- Interactive discussions and conclusion
Technology Fair
Technology Fair - Executive Secretary of UNCCD Ibrahim Thiaw’s visit of the Technology Fair
Technology Fair - Technologies of Consciousness for Sustainable Farming of Low Carbon Footprint
Presentation of innovative sustainable farming method of low carbon footprint. This method integrates thought-based meditation with holistic organic farming. Thousands of farmers who are applying this method achieve improved crop yield, nutritional content and shelf life.
Presented by Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, India
Speaker: John Ndiritu
Technology Fair - Landscape Rehabilitation in the Ethiopian Lowlands - A ten-year journey
The animated poster presents technologies applied for soil protection and landscape rehabilitation in the Ethiopian lowlands
Presented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Speaker : David Kersting
Side events
103 ICRAF Halting Land Degradation by Scaling-up Proven and Cost-Effective Land Management Practice
127 SADC Actions to foster drougth resilience in the context of LDN in SADC region
34 UN Water Dealing with drought: a multifaceted view
51 GEO GIZ GEO Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Initiative
108 IRD Gender issues in Drylands – Women as important actors to restore ecosystems
129 IPBES The IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
23 World Future Council Agroecology and organic agriculture in India and the Himalayas: Enhancing fertile landscapes and improving living conditions
28 UNCCD Global Land Outlook Regional Thematic Reports
Get the reports here https://knowledge.unccd.int/glo/global-land-outlook-regional-reports
13:15 Welcome by Sasha Alexander, UNCCD Policy Officer
13:20 Opening Remarks by Ibrahim Thiaw, UNCCD Executive Secretary
13:40 Panel Session moderated by Naomi Stewart, Independent Expert
• East Africa - land governance for achieving LDN (Naomi Stewart)
• Northeast Asia - partnerships for achieving LDN (Byungki Ahn, KFS)
• West Africa - LDN and human security (Alfari Issifou, CILSS)
• Latin America/Caribbean - SLM and climate adaptation (Jose Miguel Torrico, UNCCD)
14:20 Discussion moderated by Naomi Stewart