UNITED NATIONS
JOURNAL
2-14 September 2019
UNCCD
Programme of Meetings and Agenda
High-level segment
High-Level Segment: Formal Statements Session - Provisional List of Speakers
Provisional List of Speakers:
- Armenia
- Italy
- Bhutan
- Seychelles
- Haiti
- Central African Republic
- Cameroun
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Zambia
- Iceland
- Bangladesh
- Costa Rica
- Cambodia
- Lebanon
- Benin
- Eritrea
- Indonesia
- Nigeria
- Cote d’Ivoire
- Malawi
- Guyana
- Ecuador
- Chile
- African Union
Interactive dialogue 1: A Values-Based Approach to Land Stewardship (Session 2-1)
This dialogue will seek to look at and articulate how a values-based approach to land stewardship would help engage stakeholders, change mindsets about the true value of land and support implementation of the UNCCD.
Chair: St. Lucia
Panelists: Representatives of: Isha Foundation, Holy See, Indigenous Communities and Civil Society
Interactive dialogue 2: Healthy Land: Healthy People (Session 2-2)
This dialogue will seek to look at and articulate how an effective implementation of the UNCCD could have a positive impact on human health if the DLDD related drivers of ill-health were addressed in a multi-sectoral way.
Chair: Zambia
Panelists: Representatives of: Global Water Partnership, WHO, IPCC, Private Sector, Ministries of Health and Foreign affairs
UNEP/FAO consultation on the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030
Interactive dialogue 3: Boosting Sustainable Value Chains for Land Based Businesses (Session 2-3)
This dialogue will seek to look at the huge potential to build sustainable value chains from products sourced in the drylands or from restored land.
Chair: Ghana
Panelists: Representatives of: Private Sector, IRENA
HLS Final Statements
Forthcoming official meetings
Conference of the Parties
COP Bureau
Committee of the Whole
COW
Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention
CRIC Bureau
Committee on Science and Technology
CST Bureau
Rio Conventions Pavilion
Rio Conventions Pavilion - Day of Action for Land - GEF/WRI/Global Commission on Adaptation: Launch of report- Follow the Sun
Rio Conventions Pavilion - Day of Action for Land - Desertif’ Action
Rio Conventions Pavilion - Day of Action for Land - 2019 Land for Life Award winners presentation
“Decades of impacts”
Moderator :Caroline Galipeau, Land for Life Programme Coordinator, UNCCD
Presentation of MERET Project of Ministry of Agriculture, Ethiopia (25 min.)
- By Betru Nedessa Beyene, National Coordinator
Presentation of Réseau MARP (25 min.)
- By Mathieu Ouédraogo, Founder and President
Rio Conventions Pavilion - Day of Action for Land -Panel session with former Land for Life winners
“Land for Life….years later”
Moderator: Caroline Galipeau, Land for Life Programme Coordinator, UNCCD
Panelists :
- Dr. Marcella D’Souza (WOTR, India)
- Mr. Awadalla Hamid (Practical Action, Sudan)
- Mr. Jagdeesh Rao (Foundation for Ecological Security, India)
Rio Conventions Pavilion - Day of Action for Land - Special Event High profile presentation on The Wadi EL-Ku Catchment Management Project: Phase 2 by Practical Action Sudan
Speakers :
Ms. Muna Elthir, Country Director, Mr. Awadalla Hamid Mohamed Osman, Environmental
Conservation Manager & Deputy Area Coordinator,Ms. Siham Mohamed Osman, FSL supervisor
Introductory video, 20 minutes presentation, Q&A and open discussion.
Rio Conventions Pavilion - Day of Action for Land - MOEFCC:Towards LDN implementation
Special events
ILO-UNCCD Cocktail Event - Integrating complementary approaches on land, green jobs, and labour migration
Highlights
Opening remarks and moderation:
Ibrahim Thiaw, UNCCD Executive Secretary
Speakers:
Michelle Leighton, ILO Chief of Labour Migration Branch
Hon. Nesto Batio Bassiere, Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Hon. Patricia Appiagyei, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Environment, Science Technology and Innovation, Ghana
Mohamed Doubi Kadmiri, Diplomatic Advisor of the Head of Government of Morocco
EU Reception
Location: Jaypee Greens Golf & Spa Resorts, Greater Noida
By invitation only
Technology Fair
Technology Fair - HARIT Ticker: Digitalization to foster Urban Rural Nutrient and Carbon Cycle towards sustainable and healthy soils
Nutrients and carbon extracted from soil for agriculture production are locked as urban organic waste. This resource provides an opportunity to plough nutrients and carbon back to soils through products like composting and other value-added products like phosphorous rich organic manure (PROM), improving the health of the soil and contributing to carbon sequestration.
As part of the Global Special initiative – One World No Hunger by the Federal Government of Germany – ProSoil project in India with its implementation partner NABARD, works towards closing the loop of carbon and nutrients flow from soil back into soil, through viable economic models. GIZ has developed a digital solution called HARIT Ticker, to provide a market exchange platform between the production (urban local bodies) and the demand (farmers and FPOs ) for organic manure. The use of HARIT ticker is fostered through MOU between Urban Development Department (UDD), Government of Maharashtra, NABARD and GIZ.
Presented by the Indian office of Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Urban Development Department, Government of Maharashtra
Speaker : Navin V Horo, Jitendra Yadav, Himanshu Verma