Programme

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Tuesday, Dec. 10 2024

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Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention

10:00 - 13:00

Main Committee

CRIC 5th Meeting

13:00 - 14:00

MET-20

CRIC Bureau Meeting

Contact groups

10:00 - 15:00

MET-12

COW Contact Group on Other Matters

10:00 - 15:00

MET-15

COW Contact Group on Other Matters - Informal Small Group on Drought

10:00 - 13:00

MET-14

CST Contact Group

14:00 - 18:00

MET-14

CST Contact Group

15:00 - 18:00

MET-16

COW Contact Group on Budget

15:00 - 22:00

MET-13

CRIC Contact Group

18:00 - 22:00

MET-12

COW Contact Group on Other Matters

Action agenda

09:00 - 10:00

MET-33

Opening session - Resilience to address the Challenges of land degradation, desertification, drought and water scarcity

10:00 - 11:30

MET-33

Session 2: Scaling up Land Restoration for Resilient Ecosystems and Communities

11:45 - 13:30

MET-33

Session 3: Resilience through Early Warning Systems

14:00 - 17:00

MET-33

Session 4: Drought Preparedness and Water Security

17:00 - 18:00

MET-33

Session 5: Closing event: Connecting DLDD, SDS and Water Scarcity with Integrated Land Solutions.

Other meetings

08:00 - 09:00

MET-32

KSA Negotiation Team

08:15 - 10:00

MET-30

EU Coordination Meeting

08:30 - 09:00

MET-22

Indigenous Peoples Caucus

08:30 - 10:00

MET-09

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

08:30 - 10:00

MET-26

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

09:00 - 10:00

MET-22

CSO Consultations

09:00 - 10:00

MET-10

Meeting of the Regional Implementation Annex for Asia (Annex II)

09:00 - 10:00

MET-29

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

10:00 - 11:30

MET-11

Piano Mattei: The Contribution of the Italian Ecosystem on Sustainable Land Management in Africa

10:00 - 11:30

MET-32

Riyadh Action Agenda :Science, Technology and innovation and Resilience Dialogue

11:30 - 13:30

MET-24

The High-Level Ministerial Panel on Sustainable Water Management in Arid Regions for Drought Resilience

13:00 - 14:00

MET-20

CRIC Bureau Meeting

13:00 - 14:00

MET-32

Group of Arab States coordination meeting

13:00 - 14:00

MET-19

Private Meeting

13:30 - 14:30

MET-24

IDRO - Advancing Global Drought Resilience through Collaboration and Innovation

15:00 - 17:00

MET-19

Indigenous Peoples Caucus

16:00 - 17:30

MET-24

Multi-actors partnerships and localization in combating desertification, improving food security and resilience in the Sahel

Side events

09:00 - 10:30

MET-06

201 - FAO - KSA The Role of NGOs in Restoring and Reduce Land Degradation: practices and experiences in Arab Countries

09:00 - 10:30

MET-08

23 - Iranian Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands Land management to control dust in the southeastern Ahvaz source, Khuzestan Iran

09:00 - 10:30

MET-01

25 - Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) Empowering Resilience: Innovative Strategies for Drought Risk Management and Mitigation

09:00 - 10:30

MET-03

300 - WWF Building Community and Ecological Resilience through the Freshwater Challenge

09:00 - 10:30

MET-07

380 - IFRC H2O RESILIENT PEACE

09:00 - 10:30

MET-05

76 - King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia National Centre for Vegetation Cover Development and Combating Desertification (NCVC) Managing forest-fires in arid areas: key strategy for reducing land degradation and combating desertification

09:00 - 10:30

MET-02

91 - Ministry of Agriculture, Zambia Building Resilience in the Face of Drought: Lessons from Zambia's 2023 El Niño Experience

11:00 - 12:30

MET-06

106 - OECD Adapting to drought risk in the context of climate change

11:00 - 12:30

MET-01

134 - United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources Soil Degradation in a Changing Climate: Environmental and Socioeconomic Impacts

11:00 - 12:30

MET-08

174 - Sustainable Environment Africa Union Commission, Addis Ababa Ethiopia Sustainable Solutions for Climate and Extreme Weather-Induced Insecurity and Migration in the Drylands of Africa: The Role of Sustainable Land Management and Land Restoration

11:00 - 12:30

MET-07

21 - United Nations University-Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability Operationalizing integrated landscape approaches towards socio-ecological resilience

11:00 - 12:30

MET-04

29 - APEFE Actions de lutte contre la dégradation des terres et des écosystèmes dans le cadre de l’Initiative de la Grande Muraille Verte au Sahara et au Sahel au Burkina Faso

11:00 - 12:30

MET-02

382 - Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, South Africa From Policies to Actions- an African Perspective

11:00 - 12:30

MET-22 (CSO)

5 - The Energy and Resources Institute Ecological Restoration of a Red Mud Dump Site through Vegetation

13:00 - 14:30

MET-04

133 - Nature and People Foundation: On the way to the expanding the UNCCD role in global land-based solutions

13:00 - 14:30

MET-02

166 - Tree Aid Local & Inclusive Forest Governance: a key to scale up and leverage private investment for sustainable land restoration across the Great Green Wall

13:00 - 14:30

MET-01

282 - African Development Bank Scaling Up Land Restoration and Sustainable Land Use Planning: African Development Bank’s Contribution to Combating Land Degradation

13:00 - 14:30

MET-03

34 - United Nations University Vice Rectorate in Europe (UNU-VIE) Leveraging Digital and Innovative Technologies for Agricultural Water Management

13:00 - 14:30

MET-08

357 - British Society of Soil Science Securing the future for people and planet – managing soils for a resilient, sustainable future

13:00 - 14:30

MET-22

367 - Desertnet International (DNI) Rethinking desertification and land restoration: bridging science, policy and practice at COP16 UNCCD

13:00 - 14:30

MET-05

379 - The World Bank Strengthening Resilience through Landscape Restoration: Insights from Africa, Latino America and ECA regions (World Bank - landscape restoration for resilience)

13:00 - 14:30

MET-07

388 - EARTHNA/Qatar - Panel discussion on Sustainability and Traditional Urbanism

15:30 - 17:00

MET-05

195 - International Water Management Institute Drought Agile: Building Resilient Communities through Integrated Drought Programme

15:30 - 17:00

MET-07

255 - Global Water Partnership Catalyzing Drought Resilience: The Integrated Drought Management Programme

15:30 - 17:00

MET-03

262 - World Food Programme, Regional Bureau for Southern Africa Nature-based solutions to land and water management in improving soil health and combating desertification in Southern Africa

15:30 - 17:00

MET-02

27 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Integrated planning and effective institutional coordination for drought management

15:30 - 17:00

MET-06

322 - UNDP & UN-Water Collaboration for impact on desertification: implementing the UN’s System Wide Strategy on Water and Sanitation”

15:30 - 17:00

MET-04

330 - The Nature Conservancy The Essential Role of Nature in Drought Resilience

15:30 - 17:00

MET-22 (CSO)

69 - Zambezi Watercourse Commission (ZAMCOM) Building Strong Communities that are Resilient to Climate Change and Economic Shocks in the Zambezi Watercourse

15:30 - 17:00

MET-08

73 - The National Program for the Conversion of Degraded Pastures into Sustainable Agricultural and Forestry Production System (PNCPD) – A Brazilian strategy to stop and prevent the desertification and to promote the conservation of the soil.

Secretariat of innovation, sustainable development, irrigation and cooperatives - SDI

15:30 - 17:00

MET-01

79 - Desertification and Human Mobility in the Central American Dry Corridor: Integrated Strategies for Resilience and Adaptation

Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo-CCAD (Belice, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá and Dominican Republic)

16:00 - 17:30

MET-05

353 - Multi-actors partnerships and localization in combating desertification, improving food security and resilience in the Sahel

18:00 - 19:30

MET-07

124 - Natural Capitalism Solutions Regenerative Agriculture vs. Mechanistic Farming: Building Resilience and Nourishing Communities

18:00 - 19:30

MET-03

167 - United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) - Global Water Operators’ Partnership Alliance (GWOPA) Unlocking the potential of wastewater: An approach towards circular economy to restore land

18:00 - 19:30

MET-01

178 - AOAD Drought risk management and mitigation strategy for the Arab region

18:00 - 19:30

MET-02

249 - Italian Agency for Development Cooperation “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”: A Proverb that inspires Drought Resilience in Africa

18:00 - 19:30

MET-08

263 - United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) UN Coalition to Combat Sand and Dust Storms: Resilient Actions and Commitments for Combating SDS

18:00 - 19:30

MET-05

274 - World Meteorological Organization Outcomes of Drought Resilience +10 Conference: From Geneva to Riyadh and Beyond

18:00 - 19:30

MET-06

289 - OSS Evidence-based analysis of SDG 15.3.1 in Africa: Leveraging innovative tools for " land degradation monitoring and Reporting in Africa

18:00 - 19:30

MET-04

46 - Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, South Africa Restoring Landscapes in South Africa (ReLISA)