Programme

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Friday, Dec. 6 2024

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Conference of the Parties

18:00 - 19:00

MET-21

COP16 Bureau Meeting

Committee of the Whole

15:00 - 18:00

Plenary Hall

COW 3rd meeting

MTE, SDS, Rangeland, Gender

Committee on Science and Technology

15:00 - 18:00

Main Committee Room

CST 4th meeting

Knowledge sharing, SPI work programme

Contact groups

10:00 - 15:00

MET-12

CoW contact group on other matters

11:00 - 13:00

MET-16

COW contact group on budget

13:00 - 15:00

MET-14

CST Contact Group

Special events

13:00 - 15:00

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Special segment: High-level interactive dialogue on the role of subnational governments to accelerate sustainable land management

Action agenda

13:00 - 15:00

MET-33

Mayor's Forum: Showcasing the role of local and regional governments in combating land degradation, water scarcity, and desertification

13:00 - 15:00

MET-24

Women’s Land Rights for Effective Restoration Efforts: Understanding Synergies, Taking Action

15:30 - 17:30

MET-25

Governance in Drylands: A Vision for a Just Land Transition

15:30 - 17:30

MET-23

Rights and responsibilities: how to achieve equitable, inclusive and sustainable water governance

15:30 - 17:30

MET-33

Tenure security as an enabler of land restoration and sustainable agrifood systems: the role of land policy

15:30 - 17:30

MET-24

Urban-Rural Linkages and Land: Tools and governance frameworks for action

18:00 - 20:00

MET-25

Data and Knowledge Management: Towards Integrating land tenure into UNCCD monitoring

18:00 - 20:00

MET-24

How Integrated Land Use Planning (ILUP) contributes to LDN, food and tenure security and multiple environmental goals

18:00 - 20:00

MET-33

Shared Lands, Shared Futures: Inclusive Governance for Rangelands and Pastoralists

Other meetings

08:00 - 09:00

MET-32

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Negotiation Team

08:15 - 10:00

MET-30

EU Coordination Meeting

08:30 - 09:00

MET-15

Indigenous Peoples Caucus

09:00 - 10:00

MET-26

Meeting of the Regional Implementation Annex for Central and Eastern Europe (Annex V)

09:00 - 10:00

MET-15

CSO Consultations

09:00 - 10:00

MET-28

JUSCANZ

09:00 - 10:00

MET-09

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

09:00 - 10:00

MET-11

Meeting of the Regional Implementation Annex for Latin America and the Caribbean (Annex III)

09:00 - 12:00

MET-23

Preparations for the Mayors Forum

09:00 - 13:00

MET-22

Youth Conference

10:00 - 11:30

MET-32

Riyadh Action Agenda: Agri-Food Systems Dialogue

13:00 - 14:00

MET-32

Group of Arab States coordination meeting

14:00 - 18:00

MET-22

Youth Conference

14:00 - 15:30

MET-29

Youth Conference Consultations

Side events

09:00 - 10:30

MET-01

136 - FAO : Indigenous Peoples’ Biocentric Restoration contributions to combat desertification under the three Rio Conventions and the works of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration to enhance resilience and ensure biodiversity conservation

09:00 - 10:30

MET-03

153 - Environmental Protection and Development Association (EPDA) Restoration and Long-Term Monitoring of the Bonadikombo Community Water Catchment: Lessons from a Successful Land Restoration Project in Cameroon

09:00 - 10:30

MET-04

154 - Change Human’s Life (CHL)Restoring the Earth through Action

09:00 - 10:30

MET-02

198 - National Center for Vegetation Cover Development and Combating Desertification (NCVC) - KSA Principles and Good Practices in Sustainable Rangeland Management for Land Restoration

09:00 - 10:30

MET-05

312 - International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) Cultivating Change for Land Degradation Neutrality through Evidence-based Policy and Practice

09:00 - 10:30

MET-06

327 - The Nature Conservancy Land tenure rights, governance, degradation & restoration - Kenya perspective

09:00 - 10:30

MET-08

328 - The Nature Conservancy Valuing Grasslands: Critical Ecosystems for Nature, Climate and People

09:00 - 10:30

MET-07

337 - Exploring Preferred Governance Functionality for Addressing Desertification and Developing Strategies that Effectively Integrate Local, Regional, and International Efforts to Mitigate the Impact of Desertification

Global Sustainable Futures Network CIC

09:00 - 10:30

MET-07

Global Sustainable Futures Network CIC Exploring Preferred Governance Functionality for Addressing Desertification and Developing Strategies that Effectively Integrate Local, Regional, and International Efforts to Mitigate the Impact of Desertification

11:00 - 12:30

MET-02

20 - Danaya What role can local authorities and subnational governments play in sustainable land management and drought resilience?

11:00 - 12:30

MET-01

220 - Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Investing in soil health in Africa: A pathway to multiple SDGs

11:00 - 12:30

MET-08

243 - Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) The Ripple Effect: Harnessing Systems for Drought-Proofing the Future

11:00 - 12:30

MET-06

281 - UNDP HQ Solar Power Desalination for Irrigation: AWARe Initiative Explores Potential in North Africa Region for Drought Resilience

11:00 - 12:30

MET-04

285 - FAO Integrated Land Use Planning, Implementation and Monitoring for LDN

11:00 - 12:30

MET-05

288 - OSS Promoting the Resilience of Sahelian Ecosystems: Towards Sustainable Land Management through Innovative and Integrated Approaches

11:00 - 12:30

MET-03

47 - Southern African Development Community (SADC) Actions to foster drought resilience in the context of Land Degradation Neutrality in the SADC region

11:00 - 12:30

MET-07

82 - UNEP Rethinking Urban Landscapes: Equity, Restoration, and Resilience in Arid Regions

13:00 - 14:30

MET-03

127 - Consórcio Nordeste/Northeast Consortium PISF: the boldest project to fight against the droughts in Brazil

13:00 - 14:30

MET-04

132 - AEON Collective Opportunities for promoting synergies between Climate Change Adaptation and Land Degradation Neutrality within the National Adaptation Plan process - Insights from Saudi Arabia

13:00 - 14:30

MET-02

147 - Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia Strengthening National LDN Targets and Commitments with Geospatial Data

13:00 - 14:30

MET-05

168 - TMG Research Four years of learning from monitoring the implementation of the UNCCD land tenure decision in six countries

13:00 - 14:30

MET-07

208 - General Directorate of Combating Desertification and Erosion, Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Turkey LDN TSP 2.0 national processes: progress to date and lessons learned

13:00 - 14:30

MET-08

374 - NCVC – National Centre for Vegetation Cover Development and Combating Desertification of Saudi Arabia The role of dryland forests to achieve land degradation neutrality

13:00 - 14:30

MET-06

39 - WOCAT, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern The Land Story. Country experiences with reporting on land degradation and drought

13:00 - 14:30

MET-01

64 - SankalpTaru Foundation Land Restoration and Community-Led Sustainability

15:30 - 17:00

MET-05

11 - ENDA Energie Stock-taking of LDN targets in Sub-Saharan Africa: understanding and avoiding land degradation

15:30 - 17:00

MET-01

165 - Tree Aid Unlocking the voluntary carbon market for Sahelian communities

15:30 - 17:00

MET-06

200 - FAO National Sand Encroachment Monitoring Network for KSA: Collaboration of FAO-KSA and US National Wind Erosion Research Network in the design, testing, and establishment of a national sand encroachment monitoring network for KSA.

15:30 - 17:00

MET-02

248 - RECONCILE Data dilemmas: Bridging knowledge gaps for inclusive rangeland governance

15:30 - 17:00

MET-07

271 - Sierra Leone Land Alliance Showing land degradation hotspots in Sierra Leone

15:30 - 17:00

MET-04

51 - Brazilian National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples Land restoration/regeneration and drought resilience: lessons from indigenous peoples and traditional peoples and communities

18:00 - 19:30

MET-02

112 - International Organization for Migration (IOM) The roles of regional frameworks and cooperation to support the Convention to address migration in the context of desertification/land degradation and drought

18:00 - 19:30

MET-01

2 - PISLM The role of data in sustainable land and soil management in Caribbean SIDS

18:00 - 19:30

MET-05

246 - TMG Research Land rights as a foundation: strengthening climate action and justice through the Rio Conventions' land agenda

18:00 - 19:30

MET-03

254 - UNEP “MEAs Synergies for Strengthened Environmental Governance: Insights from the Bern III Conference” - Governance Day

18:00 - 19:30

MET-08

272 - Global Water Partnership Letting experience speak: Drought resilience lessons from experience through South-North learning

18:00 - 19:30

MET-06

309 - Landesa Implementing women’s land tenure rights to achieve land degradation neutrality: promising initiatives