UNITED NATIONS
JOURNAL
Fifteenth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15)
9-20 May 2022
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
UNCCD
Programme of Meetings and Agenda
Official meetings
Conference of the Parties (COP)
Inclusion of activities of civil society organizations within the official programme of work of the Conference of the Parties
Open dialogue session
COMMITTEE FOR THE REVIEW OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION( CRIC )
1. Securing of additional investments and relations with financial mechanisms.[item 4]
(a) Report by the Global Environment Facility on the financing of programmes and projects concerning desertification/land degradation and drought (ICCD/CRIC(20)/4, ICCD/CRIC(20)/10) Introduction and discussion
(b) Report by the Global Mechanism on progress made in the mobilization of resources for the implementation of the Convention (ICCD/CRIC(20)/5, ICCD/CRIC(20)/10) Introduction and discussion
Forthcoming official meetings
Conference of the Parties
COP - Bureau Meeting
Committee of the Whole
COW Contact Group on Budget - open ended meeting
CoW Contact Group on other matters
CoW Contact Group on other matters - open ended meeting
Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention
CRIC Contact Group - Open ended meeting
CRIC Bureau Meeting
CRIC
5th meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Main Committee Room
1. Effective implementation of the Convention at national, subregional and regional levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [item 2]
(a) Review of the report of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention on its nineteenth session
Action on draft decision ICCD/CRIC(20)/L.1
(d) Integration of Sustainable Development Goal 15 and related target 15.3 into the implementation of the Convention and land degradation neutrality
Action on draft decision ICCD/CRIC(20)/L.2
(e) Development and promotion of activities for targeted capacity-building to further the implementation of the Convention
Action on draft decision ICCD/CRIC(20)/L.3
2. Improving the procedures for communication of information as well as the quality and formats of reports to be submitted to the Conference of the Parties . . . [item 3]
Action on draft decision
3. Securing of additional investments and relations with financial mechanisms [item 4]
(a) Report by the Global Environment Facility on the financing of programmes and projects concerning desertification/land degradation and drought
Action on draft decision
(b) Report by the Global Mechanism on progress made in the mobilization of resources for the implementation of the Convention
Action on draft decision
4. Procedural matters: Programme of work for the twenty-first session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention ..... [item 5]
Action on draft decisions
5. Adoption of the report of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention
6. Organizational matters ....................................... [1]
(b) Election of officers other than the Chair of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention.
Closure of the session
Meetings other than meetings of United Nations bodies
JUSCANZ COORDINATION MEETING
Rio Conventions Pavilion
Land Restoration Day
Programme
09:00-10:30
Land Restoration for People and Planet: UNDP Ecosystem Restoration Initiative
10:45-12:15
Local Actions for Sustainable Land Management: an overview of GEF Small Grants Programme Portfolio Sustainable Land Management
12:30-14:00
Towards coherence of land-based Rio-targets: Linking Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) targets with Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) through Sustainable Land Management (SLM)
14:15-15:45
Cost and benefit data on Sustainable Land Management – launch of a new GIZ/ELD-UNCCD-WOCAT tool
16:00-17:30
PBL’s assessment of the global potential for land restoration – cost/benefit analysis and scenarios for the Global Land Outlook
17:45-19:15
Land Degration neutrality (LDN) reporting, target setting and monitoring: Experiences from Ecuador, Türkiye, and Kazakhstan in co-developing and applying FAO-WOCAT tools at national level for LDN
09:00-10:30
Land Restoration for People and Planet: UNDP Ecosystem Restoration Initiative
This side event is organized by UNDP in partnership with the governments of Malawi, Cameroon and Kazakhstan to showcase UNDP-supported efforts on land restoration and introduce the Ecosystem Restoration Promise. The specific objectives of the side event are to:
• Present country-led initiatives on land restoration highlighting results achieved, lessons leant, challenges experienced and opportunities to scale-up implementation.
• Seek feedback, partnerships and collaboration for the development and implementation of the Ecosystem Restoration Promise;
• Facilitate networking between country parties, restoration stakeholders and development partners to strengthen the emerging global movement advocated for by the UN Decade.
The event will be structured around the following interventions:
1) UNDP Support on Sustainable Land Management and Restoration (Ecosystem Restoration Promise);
2) The Malawi Green Corps Initiative;
3) Overview of National Efforts on Land Restoration in Cameroon; and
4) Addressing Land Degradation and Water Scarcity in the Aral Sea Region in Kazakhstan.
10:45-12:15
Local Actions for Sustainable Land Management: an overview of GEF Small Grants Programme Portfolio Sustainable Land Management:
The GEF SGP portfolio on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) has demonstrated good practices of adaptive, community-based land management that combine indigenous and local knowledge with modern techniques to address the degradation and destruction of agricultural lands, rangelands, and forest landscapes while also improving civil society capacity to implement integrated natural resources management approaches. The side event aims to highlighting the importance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities action for SLM and to achieve Land Degradation neutrality (LDN) targets at the national and global levels. It will showcase the SGP SLM portfolio involving women and youth solutions that lead to job creation and livelihood improvement and contributed to the SDGs in alignment with GEF and UNDP strategies.
12:30-14:00
Towards coherence of land-based Rio-targets: Linking Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) targets with Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) through Sustainable Land Management (SLM)
Enhancing soil health and soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks through climate-sensitive sustainable land management and land restoration is a central leverage for climate change mitigation and adaptation, food security and biodiversity conservation. Integration of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) targets into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) may unlock resources to achieve LDN targets, raise the ambition of NDCs in the land use sector and ensure the inclusion of soil health in the post-2020 biodiversity agenda. The panel discussion will focus on how to strengthen apparent synergies between the Rio Conventions at a political level and aims to contribute to the alignment of national SOC-related planning processes to save resources and boost action.
14:15-15:45
Cost and benefit data on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) - launch of a new GIZ/ELD-UNCCD-WOCAT tool
Developing accurate measures of costs and benefits of SLM is useful for instance for: i) enhancing the appraisal of investments associated to the adoption of SLM, including the evaluation of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Transformative Projects and Programmes; ii) assessing the costs and benefits associated to alternative pathways to achieve LDN by identifying the most cost-effective courses of action. With the purpose of contributing to the current efforts of developing information on the costs and benefits of SLM, a partnership between GIZ/ELD, UNCCD GM, WOCAT and ZEF/University of Bonn was established. The side event will launch a new database developed by the partners on costs and benefits of SLM based on the WOCAT dataset. The database will be presented to the audience, key results on costs and benefits - resulting from analyzing the WOCAT dataset - will be shared and discussed and main policy messages presented.
16:00-17:30
PBL’s assessment of the global potential for land restoration – cost/benefit analysis and scenarios for the Global Land Outlook
Although global scenario studies involve large uncertainties, our scenario analysis provides an integrated approach to assess global potential for land restoration which allows a consistent assessment of both synergies and trade-offs of land restoration. The scenario assessments are compared to current restoration commitments made by countries that have been analyzed across multiple national plans from the UNCCD, CBD and UNFCCC conventions and the Bonn Challenge. Additional studies by PBL (The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) zoom onto these complexities for understanding cost and benefits of land restoration options at a lower scale. The costs of a common set of land restoration measures are estimated at the micro-level, and together with country-level commitments on land restoration provide a global estimate on the investments needed for large-scale land restoration. In addition, the evidence on impacts of land restoration at household-level are scrutinized, revealing a paucity of rigorous evaluations of the impact of land restoration across different settings.
17:45-19:15
Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) reporting, target setting and monitoring: Experiences from Ecuador, Türkiye, and Kazakhstan in co-developing and applying FAO-WOCAT tools at national level for LDN
Ecuador and different countries in Latin America, Central Asia and Europe co-developed with FAO and WOCAT a tool to perform comprehensive, data-driven, and participatory assessments of land degradation at national scale, integrating qualitative and quantitative data and considering both the biophysical and socio-economic dimensions of land degradation. In this session, Ecuador and representatives of Kazakhstan, and Türkiye, will present their experiences in developing and applying this spatially explicit interactive tool that supports LDN monitoring and reporting as well as target setting and decision making. The tool enabled decision-makers to easily compare results and obtain statistics at different spatial scales and landscapes, and to identify areas with specific characteristics to prioritize different types of interventions to achieve or set the country´s LDN targets using the principle of convergence of evidence.