Pablo Aurelio

Pablo Viegas Aurelio is technical advisor for the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Argentina. He graduated in law and postgraduate in business and agribusiness law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Since 2001 he has been working on the subject of soil degradation and the fight against desertification and national representative in the UNCCD. Was national coordinator from many projects supported by UN and national and international agencies related with sustainable land management. He also was UNCCD Focal Point and he has been contributing to technical activities of the National Directorate of Land Planning and Combat Desertification. He contributed to the formulation and aligned (AGENDA 2030) the Argentina National Strategy and Action Plan for Combating Desertification 2030. He is a teacher and collaborator in different undergraduate and graduate courses related to the subject. He has contributed to many publications relevant to the implementation of measures to combat desertification, such as “Revolving Funds, A Tool To Combat Desertification And Eradicate Poverty In Argentina”; Evaluation of Desertification in Argentina SAyDS / FAO, Land Degradation in Dry Areas and Identification of Sustainable Management Practices Recommended in Argentina SAyDS / FAO, Digital Newspaper of the NAP, among others. He was Focal Point of Mercosur on the subject since 2005 and Coordination of the decentralization process of the PAN and the installation of Provincial Programs to Combat Desertification; Technical collaboration for the project “The Assessment of land degradation in different climate change scenarios”.